The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Shipshewana has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shipshewana a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Shipshewana is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.69 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Shipshewana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Shipshewana, just 10.37% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Shipshewana in 2022 was $35,919, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $143,676 for a family of four. However, Shipshewana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shipshewana is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shipshewana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shipshewana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shipshewana include German, English, European, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Shipshewana is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
