Bruceville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 444 people and just one neighborhood, Bruceville is the 416th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Bruceville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Bruceville is a blue-collar town, with 37.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bruceville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruceville who work in office and administrative support (12.92%), healthcare (11.25%), and sales jobs (7.50%).
The overall crime rate in Bruceville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Bruceville 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. Bruceville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bruceville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bruceville may be for you.
Being a small town, Bruceville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Bruceville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.54% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bruceville in 2018 was $34,362, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,448 for a family of four. However, Bruceville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bruceville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bruceville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bruceville include German, English, European, Scottish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Bruceville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
If you are planning to retire in Indiana, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Indiana, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 98.3% of neighborhoods in IN. If a Indiana retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.
Our research reveals that 91.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 3.9% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Bruceville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% 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 80.0% 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, 38.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.0%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.6% of households.
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 Bruceville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (91.8%) 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.