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Cloverdale, IN

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Overview


Cloverdale is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,126 people and just one neighborhood, Cloverdale is the 239th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cloverdale, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.17% of Cloverdale’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cloverdale is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cloverdale who work in office and administrative support (14.05%), management occupations (6.73%), and food service (5.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Cloverdale 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. Cloverdale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cloverdale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cloverdale may be for you.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cloverdale is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.01% of adults 25 and older in Cloverdale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cloverdale in 2018 was $25,116, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,464 for a family of four. However, Cloverdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cloverdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cloverdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cloverdale include German, Irish, English, Polish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Cloverdale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of American neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Cloverdale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 43.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cloverdale, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (5.8%) 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.


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