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Winslow, IN

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Overview


Winslow is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 760 people and just one neighborhood, Winslow is the 359th largest community in Indiana. Winslow has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Winslow, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 61.65% of Winslow’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Winslow is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winslow who work in management occupations (9.32%), office and administrative support (7.17%), and maintenance occupations (5.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Winslow 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. Winslow has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Winslow than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Winslow may be for you.

One downside of living in Winslow is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Winslow, the average commute to work is 32.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Winslow doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Winslow has a very low overall level of education: only 8.98% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Winslow in 2018 was $27,678, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,712 for a family of four. However, Winslow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Winslow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.

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 Winslow, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.8% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian 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 Winslow are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% 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, 38.6% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).

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 Winslow, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (28.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (14.1%) . 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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