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Ingalls, IN

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Overview


Ingalls is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,520 people and just one neighborhood, Ingalls is the 227th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Ingalls was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Ingalls economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Ingalls, where the median household income is $70,313.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ingalls is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ingalls is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ingalls who work in management occupations (16.21%), food service (11.97%), and office and administrative support (9.90%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.18% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Ingalls is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ingalls a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Ingalls has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ingalls’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Ingalls with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.51% of adults in Ingalls have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Ingalls in 2018 was $26,301, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,204 for a family of four. However, Ingalls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Indiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Ingalls are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.7% 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, 42.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Ingalls, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (38.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.9%) 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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