Ypsilanti is a medium-sized city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 19,393 people and 37 associated neighborhoods, Ypsilanti is the 65th largest community in Michigan.Ypsilanti is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ypsilanti is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ypsilanti who work in teaching (11.21%), sales jobs (10.13%), and food service (9.47%). Of important note, Ypsilanti is also a city of artists. Ypsilanti has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ypsilanti’s character. Also of interest is that Ypsilanti has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.17% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Ypsilanti is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Ypsilanti area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Ypsilanti maintain a good economy. For a small city, Ypsilanti has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Ypsilanti exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.The citizens of Ypsilanti are among the most well-educated in the nation: 45.84% of adults in Ypsilanti have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Ypsilanti in 2022 was $32,270, which is middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,080 for a family of four. However, Ypsilanti contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Ypsilanti is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ypsilanti home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ypsilanti residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ypsilanti include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Ypsilanti is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
