Indian Wells is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 232 people and two associated neighborhoods, Indian Wells is the 178th largest community in Arizona.When you are in Indian Wells, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.47% of Indian Wells’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Indian Wells is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Indian Wells who work in healthcare suport services (12.94%), office and administrative support (9.41%), and sales jobs (9.41%). Of important note, Indian Wells is also a town of artists. Indian Wells has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Indian Wells’s character. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.59% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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. Indian Wells’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!) Indian Wells 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. Indian Wells has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Indian Wells than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Indian Wells may be for you. One downside of living in Indian Wells is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Indian Wells, the average commute to work is 47.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Indian Wells doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.Indian Wells ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.84% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Indian Wells in 2022 was $11,801, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $47,204 for a family of four. Indian Wells also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.61% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Indian Wells home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Indian Wells residents report their race to be Native American, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Indian Wells include Portuguese, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander. The most common language spoken in Indian Wells is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and English.
