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Bloomingdale, IN

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Overview


Bloomingdale is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 270 people and just one neighborhood, Bloomingdale is the 447th largest community in Indiana. Bloomingdale has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Bloomingdale is a blue-collar town, with 45.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bloomingdale is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomingdale who work in teaching (10.20%), management occupations (8.16%), and sales jobs (7.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Bloomingdale 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 population of Bloomingdale has a very low overall level of education: only 9.39% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Bloomingdale in 2018 was $26,513, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,052 for a family of four. However, Bloomingdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 20.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Bloomingdale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 34.5% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 10.7% 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 80.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

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 Bloomingdale, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Swiss roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (61.8%) 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 (21.2%) and 6.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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