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Osgood, IN

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Overview


Osgood is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,588 people and just one neighborhood, Osgood is the 273rd largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Osgood, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.00% of Osgood’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Osgood is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Osgood who work in food service (12.92%), office and administrative support (10.05%), and healthcare suport services (6.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Osgood is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Being a small town, Osgood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Osgood with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.44% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Osgood in 2022 was $23,881, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,524 for a family of four. However, Osgood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Osgood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osgood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Osgood include German, Irish, English, French, and British.

The most common language spoken in Osgood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

The Neighbors

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 Osgood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.8% 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, 32.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Osgood, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.8%).

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 (32.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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