It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Shipshewana has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Shipshewana has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shipshewana than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shipshewana may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.69 minutes getting to work every day.
Shipshewana 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.
The percentage of people in Shipshewana with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.37% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shipshewana in 2022 was $35,919, 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 $143,676 for a family of four. However, Shipshewana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shipshewana is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shipshewana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shipshewana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shipshewana include German, English, European, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Shipshewana is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
