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Kennard, IN

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Overview


Kennard is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 452 people and just one neighborhood, Kennard is the 415th largest community in Indiana. Kennard 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 Kennard, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.35% of Kennard’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kennard is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kennard who work in management occupations (13.91%), sales jobs (10.00%), and office and administrative support (6.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Kennard is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Kennard a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Kennard has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Kennard’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Kennard, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.88 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Kennard does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Kennard are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.48% of adults in Kennard have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Kennard in 2018 was $21,743, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,972 for a family of four. However, Kennard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Kennard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kennard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kennard include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Kennard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.0% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Indiana, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Indiana.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss 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 Kennard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.6% 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 66.0% 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, 40.1% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.8%), and 12.1% 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 Italian (2.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kennard, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (10.9%) . 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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