Huntertown is a somewhat small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 9,284 people and just one neighborhood, Huntertown is the 91st largest community in Indiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Huntertown, 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 Huntertown, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Huntertown’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Huntertown does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $102,067.00.
Huntertown real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Huntertown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Huntertown is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Huntertown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntertown who work in sales jobs (15.95%), management occupations (10.61%), and healthcare (10.53%).
A relatively large number of people in Huntertown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.07% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Huntertown is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Huntertown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Huntertown perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Being a small town, Huntertown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Huntertown citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.24% of adults in Huntertown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Huntertown in 2022 was $38,236, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,944 for a family of four. However, Huntertown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Huntertown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Huntertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntertown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Huntertown include German, English, European, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Huntertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood is considered a solid choice for executive lifestyles. NeighborhoodScout's analysis ranks it as better than 94.8% of Indiana neighborhoods for executive living, based on the wealthy, educated professionals, executives, and managers who choose to reside here, the spacious homes that are prominent features of the real estate in the neighborhood, and the high real estate appreciation rates found here relative to other neighborhoods in the state. In addition to being an excellent choice for highly educated executives, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.
Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% 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 Huntertown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.6% 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 76.6% 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, 52.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.2%), and 9.4% 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 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Italian, 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 Huntertown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Asian roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.