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Hardinsburg, IN

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Overview


Hardinsburg is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 219 people and just one neighborhood, Hardinsburg is the 458th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Hardinsburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.55% of Hardinsburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hardinsburg is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hardinsburg who work in food service (14.89%), office and administrative support (12.77%), and maintenance occupations (10.64%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Hardinsburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hardinsburg has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hardinsburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hardinsburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hardinsburg may be for you.

One downside of living in Hardinsburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.89 minutes every day commuting to work.

Hardinsburg 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.

Demographics

Hardinsburg ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.57% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hardinsburg in 2022 was $13,111, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $52,444 for a family of four. Hardinsburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.34% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Hardinsburg is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hardinsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hardinsburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hardinsburg include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Welsh.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Hardinsburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hardinsburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.2% 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, 32.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households.

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 Hardinsburg, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.7%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (15.7%) . 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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