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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.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flora is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.26% of the Flora workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flora is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flora who work in office and administrative support (14.21%), sales jobs (9.64%), and food service (8.05%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Flora, just 11.14% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Flora in 2018 was $28,169, 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 $112,676 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, Irish, English, 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

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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 Flora are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.4% 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 70.5% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 37.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.0%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 (23.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (11.7%) . 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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