Vestaburg is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 4,243 people and just one neighborhood, Vestaburg is the 221st largest community in Michigan.
Vestaburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Vestaburg is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vestaburg who work in sales jobs (10.33%), healthcare suport services (8.40%), and office and administrative support (8.12%).
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Vestaburg 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. Vestaburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Vestaburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Vestaburg may be for you.
In Vestaburg, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.36 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Vestaburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Vestaburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.55% of adults in Vestaburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Vestaburg in 2022 was $26,488, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,952 for a family of four. However, Vestaburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Vestaburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vestaburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vestaburg include German, English, Irish, French, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Vestaburg 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 Vestaburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Vestaburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.2% 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, 28.7% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.2%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).
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 Vestaburg, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.4%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.