McBain is a tiny city located in the state of Michigan. With a population of 647 people and just one neighborhood, McBain is the 538th largest community in Michigan.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McBain is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.95% of the McBain workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McBain is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McBain who work in office and administrative support (12.71%), food service (10.50%), and maintenance occupations (8.01%).
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) McBain 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. McBain has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McBain than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McBain may be for you.
Being a small city, McBain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of McBain have a very low rate of college education: just 9.31% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in McBain in 2022 was $22,137, which is low income relative to Michigan and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,548 for a family of four. However, McBain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McBain is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McBain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McBain residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McBain also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.55% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McBain include Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in McBain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 18.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 0.7% have Belgian 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 McBain are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.5% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 McBain, MI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (18.0%), and residents who report English roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (7.8%) and 5.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.