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Winamac, IN

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Overview


Winamac is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,307 people and just one neighborhood, Winamac is the 219th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Winamac, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.84% of Winamac’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Winamac is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Winamac who work in healthcare suport services (14.27%), sales jobs (13.33%), and office and administrative support (8.31%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Winamac with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.53% of adults in Winamac have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Winamac in 2018 was $24,184, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,736 for a family of four. However, Winamac contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Winamac, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.0% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.2%) than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian 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 Winamac are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 28.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.3%), and 19.4% in executive, management, and professional 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 95.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Winamac, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (49.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (66.8%) 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 (26.2%) . 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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