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Loogootee, IN

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Overview


Loogootee is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,592 people and just one neighborhood, Loogootee is the 202nd largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Loogootee is a blue-collar town, with 38.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Loogootee is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loogootee who work in office and administrative support (7.98%), healthcare (6.73%), and management occupations (6.73%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Loogootee who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.07% of the adults in Loogootee have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Loogootee in 2018 was $31,874, 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 $127,496 for a family of four. However, Loogootee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Loogootee neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish 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 Loogootee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.6% 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, 43.5% 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 35.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (12.1%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).

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 Loogootee, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (10.0%) . 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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