Rolling Prairie is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 562 people and just one neighborhood, Rolling Prairie is the 394th largest community in Indiana.
Rolling Prairie real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Rolling Prairie house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rolling Prairie is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.69% of the Rolling Prairie workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rolling Prairie is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rolling Prairie who work in healthcare suport services (26.97%), office and administrative support (10.67%), and architecture and engineering (10.67%).
Because of many things, Rolling Prairie is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Rolling Prairie 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, Rolling Prairie has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Rolling Prairie’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Rolling Prairie is worth considering.
Rolling Prairie is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Rolling Prairie, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Rolling Prairie is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Rolling Prairie ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Rolling Prairie, 47.30% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Rolling Prairie in 2022 was $34,801, 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 $139,204 for a family of four. However, Rolling Prairie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rolling Prairie home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rolling Prairie residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rolling Prairie include German, English, European, Italian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Rolling Prairie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 91.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Indiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 12.4% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in 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 Rolling Prairie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.3% 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 60.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.5% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (11.3%).
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 Rolling Prairie, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.5%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.8%) 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.