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Gaston, IN

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Overview


Gaston is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 800 people and just one neighborhood, Gaston is the 355th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Gaston is a blue-collar town, with 43.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gaston is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gaston who work in sales jobs (12.80%), food service (11.28%), and healthcare suport services (8.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Gaston’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

As is often the case in a small town, Gaston doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Gaston with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.09% of adults in Gaston have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gaston in 2018 was $23,056, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,224 for a family of four. However, Gaston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gaston home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gaston residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gaston include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

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 Gaston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.4% 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, 35.1% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.9%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

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 Gaston, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (49.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.8%) 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 (8.8%) . 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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