About Sharpsville

Sharpsville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 585 people and just one neighborhood, Sharpsville is the 372nd largest community in Indiana.

Sharpsville is a blue-collar town, with 48.0% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Sharpsville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharpsville who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.50%), sales jobs (8.18%), and food service (5.20%).

Because of many things, Sharpsville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sharpsville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sharpsville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Sharpsville is a very car-oriented town. 100% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Sharpsville is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Sharpsville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Sharpsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Sharpsville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Sharpsville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 7.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sharpsville in 2000 was $22,480, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $89,920 for a family of four.

The people who call Sharpsville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Sharpsville is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Sharpsville include German, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Sharpsville is English.