Lincoln - Mikado is a very small town located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 2,903 people and just one neighborhood, Lincoln - Mikado is the 288th largest community in Michigan.
Lincoln - Mikado is a blue-collar town, with 38.61% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lincoln - Mikado is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lincoln - Mikado who work in office and administrative support (12.62%), management occupations (10.26%), and maintenance occupations (7.25%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lincoln - Mikado has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lincoln - Mikado a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Lincoln - Mikado does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Lincoln - Mikado are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.09% of adults in Lincoln - Mikado have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lincoln - Mikado in 2022 was $28,116, which is lower middle income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,464 for a family of four. However, Lincoln - Mikado contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lincoln - Mikado home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lincoln - Mikado residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lincoln - Mikado include German, English, Irish, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Lincoln - Mikado 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 Lincoln - Mikado, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in 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.
In addition, 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 33.9%, which is higher than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 4.5% have French Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lincoln - Mikado are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.5% 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, 37.7% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.4%).
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 Lincoln - Mikado, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.