Greendale is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 4,579 people and just one neighborhood, Greendale is the 136th largest community in Indiana.
Greendale real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Greendale house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Greendale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greendale is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Greendale who work in sales jobs (17.46%), management occupations (8.88%), and teaching (8.12%).
Also of interest is that Greendale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Greendale is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Greendale are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.95% of adults in Greendale having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greendale in 2022 was $28,162, 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 $112,648 for a family of four. However, Greendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greendale residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Greendale include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Greendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.7% have Lebanese 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 Greendale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.4% 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 57.5% 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, 32.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.5%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Greendale, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.