About Fort Branch

Fort Branch is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 4,292 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Branch is the 148th largest community in Indiana.

When you are in Fort Branch, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.6% of Fort Branch's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Fort Branch is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Branch who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.09%), sales jobs (10.18%), and teaching (5.61%).

Fort Branch is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Fort Branch 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. 97.71% 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.

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

Fort Branch Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Fort Branch who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 14.16% of the adults in Fort Branch have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fort Branch in 2000 was $19,288, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,152 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Fort Branch is English.