Crandall is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 136 people and just one neighborhood, Crandall is the 475th largest community in Indiana. Crandall has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Crandall is a blue-collar town, with 54.55% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Crandall is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crandall who work in food service (12.50%), management occupations (12.50%), and sales jobs (5.68%).
Overall, Crandall’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In Crandall, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Crandall doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Crandall has a very low overall level of education: only 7.75% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Crandall in 2022 was $17,250, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,000 for a family of four. However, Crandall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Crandall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crandall residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Crandall include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Crandall is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Indiana. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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 Crandall are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.2% of U.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, 30.5% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (28.6%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.0%).
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 Crandall, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 (37.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.