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Lynnville - Elberfeld, IN

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Overview


Lynnville - Elberfeld is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,480 people and just one neighborhood, Lynnville - Elberfeld is the 171st largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Lynnville - Elberfeld is a blue-collar town, with 40.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lynnville - Elberfeld is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lynnville - Elberfeld who work in management occupations (13.81%), sales jobs (8.61%), and office and administrative support (7.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Lynnville - Elberfeld 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, Lynnville - Elberfeld really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lynnville - Elberfeld 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Lynnville - Elberfeld doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Lynnville - Elberfeld, just 12.66% 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 Lynnville - Elberfeld in 2022 was $37,097, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,388 for a family of four. However, Lynnville - Elberfeld contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lynnville - Elberfeld is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Indiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

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 Lynnville - Elberfeld are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.9% 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 71.9% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 39.6% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Lynnville - Elberfeld, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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