L'Anse is a very small village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 1,932 people and just one neighborhood, L'Anse is the 366th largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some villages, L'Anse isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in L'Anse are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, L'Anse is a village of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in L'Anse who work in healthcare (12.12%), teaching (8.42%), and office and administrative support (7.02%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that L'Anse has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) L'Anse has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. L'Anse has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in L'Anse than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, L'Anse may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of L'Anse spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.44 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small village, L'Anse does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of L'Anse are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.44% of adults in L'Anse have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in L'Anse in 2022 was $33,789, which is upper middle income relative to Michigan, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,156 for a family of four. However, L'Anse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
L'Anse is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call L'Anse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of L'Anse residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in L'Anse include German, Finnish, Irish, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in L'Anse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in L'Anse, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.2% of America.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 33.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
If you are planning to retire in Michigan, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Michigan, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.2% of neighborhoods in MI. If a Michigan retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 9.6% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in L'Anse are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.9% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Native American languages.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in L'Anse, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Finnish ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (9.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.