Dana - Newport is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,627 people and just one neighborhood, Dana - Newport is the 200th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Dana - Newport was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Dana - Newport, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.38% of Dana - Newport’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dana - Newport is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dana - Newport who work in management occupations (13.26%), office and administrative support (11.18%), and healthcare (9.45%).
As is often the case in a small town, Dana - Newport doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Dana - Newport who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.64% of the adults in Dana - Newport have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dana - Newport in 2022 was $33,609, 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 $134,436 for a family of four. However, Dana - Newport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dana - Newport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dana - Newport residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Dana - Newport include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Dana - Newport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Other Indo-European.
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 Dana - Newport, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of all American neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.
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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of America.
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 Dana - Newport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.3% 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, 38.3% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.3%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Dana - Newport, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.2%) 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.