Staunton is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 470 people and just one neighborhood, Staunton is the 413th largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Staunton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.07% of the Staunton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Staunton is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Staunton who work in office and administrative support (19.40%), healthcare (11.19%), and personal care services (10.45%).
Also of interest is that Staunton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Staunton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Staunton, just 8.45% 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 Staunton in 2022 was $25,587, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,348 for a family of four. However, Staunton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Staunton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Staunton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Staunton include German, Scottish, Italian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Staunton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 Staunton are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.3% of America'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, 35.1% 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% 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 Staunton, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian 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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (15.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.