Idaville - Burnettsville is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,668 people and just one neighborhood, Idaville - Burnettsville is the 197th largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Idaville - Burnettsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.87% of the Idaville - Burnettsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Idaville - Burnettsville is a town of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Idaville - Burnettsville who work in teaching (8.24%), office and administrative support (7.65%), and management occupations (7.23%).
Because of many things, Idaville - Burnettsville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Idaville - Burnettsville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Idaville - Burnettsville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
As is often the case in a small town, Idaville - Burnettsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Idaville - Burnettsville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.62% of the adults in Idaville - Burnettsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Idaville - Burnettsville in 2022 was $29,829, which is middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,316 for a family of four. However, Idaville - Burnettsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Idaville - Burnettsville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Idaville - Burnettsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Idaville - Burnettsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Idaville - Burnettsville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.51% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Idaville - Burnettsville include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Idaville - Burnettsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak 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 Idaville - Burnettsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% of U.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, 40.5% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.2%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Idaville - Burnettsville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 (39.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (7.6%) and 6.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.