Etna Green is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 569 people and just one neighborhood, Etna Green is the 393rd largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Etna Green, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 67.78% of Etna Green’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Etna Green is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Etna Green who work in food service (11.85%), office and administrative support (4.07%), and sales jobs (2.96%).
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!) Etna Green 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. Etna Green has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Etna Green than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Etna Green may be for you.
In Etna Green, just 10.19% 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 Etna Green in 2022 was $27,007, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,028 for a family of four. However, Etna Green contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Etna Green home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Etna Green residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Etna Green include German, French, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Etna Green is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Etna Green, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 47.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.1% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.1%) than in 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 25.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Etna Green are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% 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, 47.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.6%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Spanish and Polish.
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 Etna Green, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.8%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (66.0%) 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 (27.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.