About Whitestown

Whitestown is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 530 people and just one neighborhood, Whitestown is the 380th largest community in Indiana.

Whitestown is a blue-collar town, with 35.0% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Whitestown is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitestown who work in sales jobs (14.57%), office and administrative support jobs (12.60%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (9.06%).

Because of many things, Whitestown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Whitestown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Whitestown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Whitestown's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Whitestown is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Whitestown isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.57% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Whitestown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Whitestown Information and Demographics

The citizens of Whitestown are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.76% of adults in Whitestown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Whitestown in 2000 was $21,674, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,696 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Whitestown is English.