Huntertown is a medium-sized town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 11,316 people and just one neighborhood, Huntertown is the 91st largest community in Indiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Huntertown, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Huntertown, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Huntertown’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Huntertown does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $104,808.00.
Huntertown real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Huntertown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Huntertown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Huntertown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntertown who work in sales jobs (13.40%), healthcare (12.23%), and management occupations (11.70%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.61% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Huntertown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Huntertown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Huntertown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Huntertown’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
As is often the case in a small town, Huntertown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Huntertown is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 42.93% of adults in Huntertown have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.
The per capita income in Huntertown in 2022 was $40,155, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,620 for a family of four. However, Huntertown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Huntertown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Huntertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntertown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Huntertown include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Huntertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
A majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Indiana by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in Indiana.
Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 70.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Huntertown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.0% 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 71.1% 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, 62.1% 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 14.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.4%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Polish.
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 Huntertown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Asian roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.7%), among others. In addition, 10.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (51.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.