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Flora, IN

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Overview


Flora is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,110 people and just one neighborhood, Flora is the 238th largest community in Indiana. Flora has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Flora, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.07% of Flora’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Flora is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flora who work in office and administrative support (11.74%), sales jobs (8.42%), and food service (7.62%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Flora rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.45% of adults 25 and older in Flora 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 Flora in 2018 was $30,431, 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 $121,724 for a family of four. However, Flora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Flora, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Flora are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.4% 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 77.5% of America'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, 34.9% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.9%).

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 Flora, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (8.9%) . 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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