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.
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%).
One downside of living in Marengo - Milltown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.62 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Marengo - Milltown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Marengo - Milltown, just 9.13% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
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.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Marengo - Milltown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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.
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, 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 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.
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.