Michigantown is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 424 people and just one neighborhood, Michigantown is the 417th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Michigantown was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Michigantown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.19% of the Michigantown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Michigantown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Michigantown who work in office and administrative support (10.65%), maintenance occupations (10.65%), and sales jobs (9.26%).
Also of interest is that Michigantown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Michigantown is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Michigantown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Michigantown with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.73% of adults in Michigantown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Michigantown in 2022 was $30,645, 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 $122,580 for a family of four. However, Michigantown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Michigantown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Michigantown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Michigantown include Dutch, German, English, Irish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Michigantown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Michigantown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.2% 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 73.9% 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, 38.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.3%).
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 Michigantown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.