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Sweetser, IN

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Overview


Sweetser is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,059 people and just one neighborhood, Sweetser is the 316th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Sweetser isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sweetser are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sweetser is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweetser who work in teaching (12.30%), office and administrative support (12.11%), and management occupations (11.91%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Sweetser is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Sweetser’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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

Demographics

The education level of Sweetser citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.83% of adults in Sweetser have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sweetser in 2018 was $30,952, 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 $123,808 for a family of four. However, Sweetser contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Sweetser home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sweetser residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sweetser include German, Irish, English, Welsh, and European.

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

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.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Sweetser is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in IN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.9% of the neighborhoods in Indiana. If you are considering retiring to Indiana, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 Sweetser are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.2% of U.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, 32.0% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.6%), and 17.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

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 Sweetser, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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