Luther is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 315 people and just one neighborhood, Luther is the 613th largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Luther was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Luther is a blue-collar town, with 62.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Luther is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Luther who work in food service (12.04%), sales jobs (8.33%), and maintenance occupations (3.70%).
Of important note, Luther is also a village of artists. Luther has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Luther’s character.
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!) Luther 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. Luther has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Luther than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Luther may be for you.
One downside of living in Luther is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Luther, the average commute to work is 31.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Luther is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Luther have a very low rate of college education: just 8.21% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Luther in 2022 was $26,270, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,080 for a family of four. However, Luther contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Luther home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Luther residents report their race to be White. Luther also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.52% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Luther include German, Irish, Polish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Luther is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Luther, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 58.4%, which is higher than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, 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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.5% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Furthermore, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Luther are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.4% of U.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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.1%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Luther, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (18.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.