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Knightstown, IN

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Overview


Knightstown is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,150 people and just one neighborhood, Knightstown is the 233rd largest community in Indiana. Knightstown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Knightstown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Knightstown is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Knightstown who work in office and administrative support (16.37%), sales jobs (11.05%), and healthcare (9.96%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Knightstown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

In Knightstown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.75 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Knightstown 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

The percentage of adults in Knightstown with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.34% of adults in Knightstown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Knightstown in 2018 was $28,892, 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 $115,568 for a family of four. However, Knightstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Knightstown 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 Knightstown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.7% of the neighborhoods in IN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

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 Knightstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.5% of U.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, 28.2% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.5%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% 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 Knightstown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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.


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