Patoka is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 707 people and just one neighborhood, Patoka is the 365th largest community in Indiana.
Patoka is a blue-collar town, with 49.89% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Patoka is a town of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Patoka who work in sales jobs (11.34%), food service (7.71%), and healthcare suport services (7.71%).
Patoka’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Patoka 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. Patoka has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Patoka than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Patoka may be for you.
Being a small town, Patoka does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Patoka ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Patoka in 2022 was $23,245, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,980 for a family of four. However, Patoka contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Patoka home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Patoka residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Patoka include German, Irish, Dutch, English, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Patoka 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.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 30 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.7% 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.
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 Patoka are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 36.6% 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 34.6% 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 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
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 Patoka, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (48.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.