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Dana - Newport is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,627 people and just one neighborhood, Dana - Newport is the 200th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Dana - Newport was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Dana - Newport is a blue-collar town, with 41.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dana - Newport is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dana - Newport who work in management occupations (13.70%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and healthcare (6.30%).
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Dana - Newport is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dana - Newport, the average commute to work is 31.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of Dana - Newport’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
Dana - Newport 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.
Demographics
In terms of college education, the citizens of Dana - Newport rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.03% of adults 25 and older in Dana - Newport have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Dana - Newport in 2022 was $34,441, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,764 for a family of four. However, Dana - Newport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dana - Newport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dana - Newport residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dana - Newport include English, German, Irish, Polish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Dana - Newport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Dana - Newport, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all American neighborhoods.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dana - Newport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 2.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 74.4% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.2% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 14.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Dana - Newport, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
