Census-designated place · Monroe County, Michigan

Stony Point, Michigan

Stony Point is a census-designated place in Monroe County, Michigan, part of the Monroe, MI metro area. It has 1,825 residents. Stony Point, Michigan has a quality-of-life score of 39 out of 100 (low), ranking #9,541 of 15,651 US cities and towns. Within Michigan it ranks #239 of 444 cities and towns. It ranks best on child care cost burden (low), mental health care shortage (low) and primary care shortage (low). It ranks worst on hospital quality rating (low), unemployment rate (high) and bachelor's degree or higher (low).

39Low

Quality-of-life score: #9,541 of 15,651 cities and towns
Michigan: #239 of 444 in MI
Population: 1,825 (2020-2024)
Land area: 1 mi²
Density: 1,503.2 /mi²
FIPS code: 2676720

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 73 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US cities and towns.

Safety46#8,369/15,637
Economy28#11,311/15,631
Housing84#2,361/14,977
Health33#10,414/15,609
Healthcare50#7,879/15,650
Environment19#12,513/15,453
Education18#12,866/15,649
Infrastructure62#5,946/15,650
Community71#4,608/15,651
Leisure & amenities25#11,759/15,651

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Stony Point, Michigan ranks highest and lowest among US cities and towns (score = percentile, 100 = best). Values marked “Monroe County value” are the county’s: the source publishes no figure for this city or town, and the county holding most of its residents stands in.

Strengths

Child care cost burden · low21.0%
92/100Michigan 25.4%United States 27.9%2023 & 2024University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value
Mental health care shortage · low0.0
91/100Michigan 9.3United States 9.9Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonroe County value
Primary care shortage · low0.0
90/100Michigan 8.3United States 6.2Oct 2026Health Resources and Services AdministrationMonroe County value
Rent-burdened households · low7.9%
90/100Michigan 50.4%United States 51.1%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B25070High uncertainty
Voter turnout · high75.6%
88/100Michigan 74.6%United States 65.2%2024U.S. Election Assistance CommissionMonroe County value
Job growth · high1.9%
87/100Michigan 0.3%United States 0.1%2026 Q1U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsProvisional dataMonroe County value

Weaknesses

Hospital quality rating · low1.0
1/100Michigan 3.1United States 3.2Jul 2026Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ServicesMonroe County value
Unemployment rate · high15.5%
2/100Michigan 5.2%United States 4.3%2020-2024U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census table B23025High uncertainty
Bachelor's degree or higher · low8.9%
5/100Michigan 32.5%United States 35.7%2020-2024U.S. Census Bureau Census table B15003
Preventable hospital stays · high4,178 /100k
7/100Michigan 3,367 /100kUnited States 2,769 /100k2023University of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteMonroe County value
Comfortable days · low23.2%
10/100Michigan 23.1%United States 26.8%2016-2025NOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationMonroe County value
Depression · high28.5%
10/100Michigan 26.5%United States 20.7%2023Centers for Disease Control and PreventionModel-based estimate

Trends

The largest changes over about five years, next to the country's over the same periods.

Child poverty rateImproving
49.1% (2015-2019) → 4.1% (2020-2024)
−45 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 16.8% → 15.5%
Home price to income ratioWorsening
1.6× (2015-2019) → 4.0× (2020-2024)
+144%5 yearsCensus table B25077US 3.5× → 4.1×
Unemployment rateWorsening
0.0% (2015-2019) → 15.5% (2020-2024)
+15 pts5 yearsCensus table B23025US 3.7% → 4.0%
Poverty rateImproving
27.2% (2015-2019) → 14.2% (2020-2024)
−13 pts5 yearsCensus table B17001US 12.3% → 12.1%
Broadband subscriptionsImproving
83.1% (2015-2019) → 92.9% (2020-2024)
+9.8 pts5 yearsCensus table B28002US 82.7% → 91.0%
Bachelor's degree or higherWorsening
14.4% (2015-2019) → 8.9% (2020-2024)
−5.5 pts5 yearsCensus table B15003US 32.1% → 35.7%

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Over about five years, Stony Point, Michigan improved on 0 of 10 measures with a comparison and declined on 1. 9 moved within the margin of error and 0 barely changed.

Earlier (2015-2019)
Latest (2020-2024)
Lower standingHigher standing

Position is the place's standing among cities and towns: further right is better, whichever way the measure counts.

Improved0

No measure improved by more than its margin of error.

Declined1

Price / income+2.4×1.6× → 4.0×

All 10 measures

Change of every measure of Stony Point, Michigan between two periods about five years apart
Measure	Before	After	Change	Reading	Favourable vs peers
Average commute time	31.9 min2015-2019	30.2 min2020-2024	−1.7 min	Within the margin of error	68%
Bachelor's degree or higher	14.4%2015-2019	8.9%2020-2024	−5.5 points	Within the margin of error	6%
Broadband subscriptions	83.1%2015-2019	92.9%2020-2024	+9.8 points	Within the margin of error	58%
Effective property tax rate	1.51%2015-2019	0.88%2020-2024	−0.6 points	Within the margin of error	95%
High school diploma or higher	93.9%2015-2019	93.8%2020-2024	−0.1 points	Within the margin of error	31%
Home price to income ratio	1.6×2015-2019	4.0×2020-2024	+2.4×	Declined	2%
Income inequality (Gini index)	0.3672015-2019	0.4632020-2024	+0.096	Within the margin of error	5%
Median household income	$73,7502015-2019	$53,8722020-2024	−27%	Within the margin of error	0%
Public transit commuters	0.0%2015-2019	0.0%2020-2024	0 points	Within the margin of error	60%
Rent as share of income	17.4%2015-2019	19.6%2020-2024	+2.2 points	Within the margin of error	38%

“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 14640 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.

Sources: American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Values are the latest and the one five years earlier of the same publisher dataset; datasets that changed publisher in between are never compared.

Survey estimates (American Community Survey) compare the two most recent 5-year windows that do not share years, so the margin of error of the difference holds. The 2015-2019 window predates the pandemic and 2020-2024 includes it.
A change counts only when it is larger than 1.645 times the square root of the two standard errors squared, summed (a 90% margin). Measures published without a margin must change by at least 5% to count.
“Against peers” compares the change with the same change in the 15651 cities and towns that have the same two periods. It describes how common a change is, not why it happened.
Standing is a percentile among the same places: 0 is the lowest value on the measure (or the worst when lower is better), 100 the best.

Cities and towns like Stony Point, Michigan five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Stony Point, Michigan in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

For comparison, Stony Point, Michigan itself moved −18.8 points in standing on average over the same 9 measures (standings of all places average about zero).

How the ranking works

Similarity is the root-mean-square difference of standings in the earlier period over the measures most places have. Places are ranked by measures that improved beyond the margin of error minus those that declined (a count that estimation noise in small places cannot inflate), then by the mean change of standing over the measures a place has in both periods. Only places with more improvements than declines and a rise in standing are listed. Standings are relative, so a place can improve in absolute terms and still lose standing.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Age and sex

1,825 residents (±541)

Men
Women

80 and over†
70–79†
60–69†

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Household income

729 households (±161)

Stony Point, Michigan
Michigan share

Under $25k28%†203
$25k–50k19%†139
$50k–75k

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Owners and renters

729 households (±161)

Stony Point, Michigan
Michigan share

Own70%513
Rent30%†216

No change since 2015–2019 is larger than the margin of error.

† Wide margin of error (more than 30% of the estimate): read with care.

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Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

How people get to work

810 workers (±252)

Stony Point, Michigan
Michigan share

Drive alone84%†678
Carpool8.4%†68
Public transit

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes pay by metro area, not by county or city. The metro area page lists its largest occupations and lets you look up any job.

Pay in the Monroe, MI

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

The Census Bureau publishes business counts by county, not by city, so these are the figures of Monroe County, the county holding most of Stony Point's residents.

Monroe County has 2,395 employer establishments, 154 for every 10,000 residents (0.62× the US rate of 248; 0.67× Michigan's), with 37,143 paid employees at an average annual pay of $53,780. The Census Bureau also counts 9,354 nonemployer businesses, mostly sole proprietors.

Establishments: 2,395; 9,354 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents: 154; US 248 · Michigan 228
Paid employees: 37,143
Average annual pay: $53,780; US $68,342

Employer establishments, employees, average pay and nonemployers of Monroe County by industry, with the density per resident against the nation

Ambulatory health care services	210	13.5	0.65×Fewer than typical	1,727	$68,646	389
Restaurants and other eating places	206	13.2	0.72×Fewer than typical	4,080	$17,834	40
Specialty trade contractors	169	10.9	0.70×Fewer than typical	1,385	$73,187	746
Limited-service restaurants	103	6.6	0.83×About typical	2,130	$17,434	24
Construction of buildings	88	5.7	0.75×Fewer than typical	316	$57,497	293
Full-service restaurants	87	5.6	0.73×Fewer than typical	1,792	$18,243	9
Offices of physicians	79	5.1	0.78×Fewer than typical	762	$92,051	54
Religious organizations	79	5.1	0.92×About typical	608	$24,219	—
Services to buildings and dwellings	75	4.8	0.72×Fewer than typical	391	$53,084	665
Automotive repair and maintenance	73	4.7	0.93×About typical	312	$47,314	156
Truck transportation	68	4.4	0.86×About typical	654	$71,946	245
Lessors of real estate	65	4.2	0.34×Fewer than typical	210	$43,605	858

Rank places for an industry Open Monroe County

County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024)

Per-resident figures divide by the population estimate of 2023: 155,563 residents here, 336,755,052 in the United States. County Business Patterns counts establishments in 2023; the Nonemployer Statistics count businesses in 2024.
“More than typical” is a density at least 1.25 times the nation's per resident, “fewer” at most 0.8 times, with at least 10 establishments. It compares counts of businesses with counts of people: it says nothing about demand, incomes, size, quality or profit, and visitors and commuters are not residents.
The Census Bureau adds noise to employment and payroll to protect confidentiality, and withholds some figures: an industry with few establishments can show employees or pay as unavailable.
Industries overlap: a narrower industry (full-service restaurants) is part of a broader one (restaurants), so the rows do not add up.
Industries follow the North American Industry Classification System; the two surveys use different editions (NAICS 2017 and 2022), which this page matches industry by industry.

Federal contracts performed here

In FY2026, an estimated $0 of federal contract obligations were for work performed in Stony Point, Michigan: $0 per resident (US $1,994).

Obligations: $0; −100% vs FY2025
Per resident: $0; US $1,994
Sole-source: —; US 30%
Single offer: —; US 8.8%

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Top buying agencies

Top recipients

Spending by fiscal year

109.6FY2017
170.3FY2018
5.7KFY2019
69.1FY2020
90.7FY2021
844.7FY2022
-717.3FY2023
-32FY2024
110.4KFY2025

What was bought

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.

How this is estimated

Agencies report each contract action's place of performance as a county and a ZIP code. A ZIP code's money is split among the cities it covers by the share of its land inside each (Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation areas); the part outside city limits stays with the county.

The place of performance is what the contracting agency reports, often the contractor's office rather than where the work happens.
Shares are of land, not of people or businesses: a ZIP code that is mostly rural land but has its offices in town gives the town less than it should.
ZIP codes that are not mapped areas (post office boxes, the unique ZIP codes of large federal sites and companies) stay with their county, unless one city covers nearly all of it.
Counts of actions and awards include those only partly in Stony Point, Michigan, so they do not add up across cities.

Stony Point, Michigan's figures are part of those of Monroe County, MI ($9.8M in FY2026), never added to them: 0.0% of that total.

Grants and other federal assistance are counted by county here, not split among cities: Stony Point is mostly in Monroe County.

See federal money in Monroe County

Representation in Congress

Members serving today, with their record in the current Congress (party-unity votes cast with their caucus, roll calls missed). Not a grade.

Stony Point, Michigan is split between congressional districts: each representative is shown with the share of its residents in their district (current boundaries).

House

Senate

County

A city can lie in several counties. Some indicators are published for counties only: the page marks them.

Monroe County58100% of residents

Metro area

The metro or micro area the city belongs to.

Monroe, MI50

Other cities and towns in Monroe County

Largest first.

Similar cities and towns

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

PLACES: Local Data for Better HealthCenters for Disease Control and Prevention · release 2025
Local Area Unemployment StatisticsU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · release 2025
American Community Survey 5-Year EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2017-2024
Population Estimates ProgramU.S. Census Bureau · release 2025
Small Area Health Insurance EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
Small Area Income and Poverty EstimatesU.S. Census Bureau · release 2024
County Health Rankings & RoadmapsUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health Institute · release 2022-2025+2026-03-supplement

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