Goodland - Brook is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,517 people and just one neighborhood, Goodland - Brook is the 208th largest community in Indiana. Goodland - Brook has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Goodland - Brook, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.65% of Goodland - Brook’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Goodland - Brook is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Goodland - Brook who work in office and administrative support (11.29%), management occupations (8.31%), and teaching (6.04%).
Being a small town, Goodland - Brook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Goodland - Brook with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.62% of adults in Goodland - Brook have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Goodland - Brook in 2022 was $29,381, 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 $117,524 for a family of four. However, Goodland - Brook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Goodland - Brook is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Goodland - Brook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Goodland - Brook residents report their race to be White. Goodland - Brook also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.68% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Goodland - Brook include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Goodland - Brook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 26 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
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 44.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.9% of American neighborhoods.
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 Goodland - Brook are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 44.2% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.7%), and 14.5% 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 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Goodland - Brook, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (18.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.