French Lick - West Baden Springs is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,867 people and just one neighborhood, French Lick - West Baden Springs is the 191st largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, French Lick - West Baden Springs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.52% of the French Lick - West Baden Springs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, French Lick - West Baden Springs is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in French Lick - West Baden Springs who work in food service (10.84%), office and administrative support (7.98%), and personal care services (7.61%).
Being a small town, French Lick - West Baden Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in French Lick - West Baden Springs is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.33% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in French Lick - West Baden Springs in 2022 was $27,890, 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 $111,560 for a family of four. However, French Lick - West Baden Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
French Lick - West Baden Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call French Lick - West Baden Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of French Lick - West Baden Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in French Lick - West Baden Springs include German, English, Irish, Jamaican, and African.
The most common language spoken in French Lick - West Baden Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in French Lick - West Baden Springs, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular French Lick - West Baden Springs neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Jamaican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Jamaican ancestry.
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 French Lick - West Baden Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% 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 55.1% 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, 36.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.2%), and 12.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.
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 French Lick - West Baden Springs, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Jamaican ancestry (4.4%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.