Overall, Shipshewana’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Shipshewana spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.19 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Shipshewana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Shipshewana, just 9.97% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Shipshewana in 2018 was $37,423, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,692 for a family of four. However, Shipshewana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shipshewana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shipshewana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shipshewana include German, European, English, Irish, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in Shipshewana is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
