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Clay City - Coalmont, IN

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Overview


Clay City - Coalmont is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,526 people and just one neighborhood, Clay City - Coalmont is the 165th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Clay City - Coalmont was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Clay City - Coalmont, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.92% of Clay City - Coalmont’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Clay City - Coalmont is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clay City - Coalmont who work in sales jobs (7.86%), healthcare suport services (7.68%), and office and administrative support (7.02%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Clay City - Coalmont, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.06 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. However, the town is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Clay City - Coalmont is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Clay City - Coalmont with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.14% of adults in Clay City - Coalmont have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Clay City - Coalmont in 2022 was $28,104, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,416 for a family of four. However, Clay City - Coalmont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Clay City - Coalmont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clay City - Coalmont residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Clay City - Coalmont include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Clay City - Coalmont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Clay City - Coalmont are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.8% 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 65.4% 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, 41.5% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Clay City - Coalmont, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (17.0%) . 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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