Galien is a tiny village located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 527 people and just one neighborhood, Galien is the 564th largest community in Michigan.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Galien is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Galien is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Galien who work in sales jobs (12.29%), office and administrative support (10.59%), and food service (8.05%).
Also of interest is that Galien has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Galien is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small village, Galien does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Galien is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.17% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Galien in 2022 was $24,187, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,748 for a family of four. However, Galien contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Galien is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Galien home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galien residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Galien include German, Irish, English, Polish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Galien 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 Galien, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Galien are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.6% 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, 34.2% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.2%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Galien, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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.