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Liberty, IN

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Overview


Liberty is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,003 people and just one neighborhood, Liberty is the 243rd largest community in Indiana. Liberty 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

Unlike some towns, Liberty isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Liberty are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Liberty is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Liberty who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), sales jobs (13.30%), and business and financial occupations (5.79%).

Also of interest is that Liberty has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Liberty citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.91% of adults 25 and older in Liberty have a college degree.

The per capita income in Liberty in 2018 was $30,034, which is middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,136 for a family of four. However, Liberty contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Liberty are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.4% 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 60.3% 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, 32.4% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Liberty, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Dutch 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (10.4%) . 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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