Springport is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 819 people and just one neighborhood, Springport is the 522nd largest community in Michigan. Much of the housing stock in Springport was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
When you are in Springport, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.61% of Springport’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Springport is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Springport who work in healthcare suport services (10.17%), management occupations (6.78%), and office and administrative support (6.50%).
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!) Springport 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. Springport has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Springport than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Springport may be for you.
Being a small village, Springport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Springport, just 6.87% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Springport in 2022 was $21,189, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,756 for a family of four. However, Springport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Springport is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Springport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Springport residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Springport include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Springport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Springport, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 45.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 1.0% have Finnish ancestry.
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 Springport are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 45.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 13.3% 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 99.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Springport, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.