Shipshewana is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 852 people and two associated neighborhoods, Shipshewana is the 349th largest community in Indiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Shipshewana, 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 Shipshewana, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Shipshewana’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Shipshewana does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $57,679.00. Shipshewana real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Shipshewana house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Shipshewana is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.19% of the Shipshewana workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Shipshewana is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shipshewana who work in office and administrative support (12.77%), sales jobs (11.33%), and management occupations (5.30%). 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!) Shipshewana 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. Shipshewana has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shipshewana than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shipshewana may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.69 minutes getting to work every day. Being a small town, Shipshewana does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Shipshewana is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. 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.
