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Marengo - Milltown, IN

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Overview


Marengo - Milltown is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,847 people and just one neighborhood, Marengo - Milltown is the 155th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Marengo - Milltown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.12% of Marengo - Milltown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Marengo - Milltown is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marengo - Milltown who work in office and administrative support (8.04%), management occupations (6.59%), and food service (6.40%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Marengo - Milltown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Marengo - Milltown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Marengo - Milltown have a very low rate of college education: just 9.13% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Marengo - Milltown in 2022 was $25,298, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,192 for a family of four. However, Marengo - Milltown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Marengo - Milltown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marengo - Milltown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marengo - Milltown include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Marengo - Milltown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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.

Occupations

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 51.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.1% of American neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.7%) than in 95.6% 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 Marengo - Milltown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 51.1% 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 22.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.3%), and 11.4% 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

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Marengo - Milltown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (22.7%) . 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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