Nappanee is a somewhat small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 6,872 people and two associated neighborhoods, Nappanee is the 102nd largest community in Indiana.Nappanee is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nappanee is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nappanee who work in computer science and math (9.51%), teaching (9.43%), and food service (8.68%). Also of interest is that Nappanee has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small city, Nappanee does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Nappanee has a very low overall level of education: only 9.57% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Nappanee in 2022 was $33,250, 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 $133,000 for a family of four. However, Nappanee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Nappanee is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nappanee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nappanee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Nappanee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.79% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nappanee include German, Italian, Dutch, English, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Nappanee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
