Wheeler is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 435 people and just one neighborhood, Wheeler is the 419th largest community in Indiana.
Wheeler real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Wheeler house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Wheeler is a blue-collar town, with 68.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wheeler is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wheeler who work in management occupations (15.71%), art, media, and design (12.86%), and sales jobs (2.86%).
Of important note, Wheeler is also a town of artists. Wheeler has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wheeler’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Wheeler telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 27.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Wheeler’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!) Wheeler 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. Wheeler has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wheeler than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wheeler may be for you.
One downside of living in Wheeler, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.74 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Wheeler doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Wheeler has a very low overall level of education: only 8.15% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Wheeler in 2022 was $30,861, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,444 for a family of four. However, Wheeler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wheeler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wheeler residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wheeler include Irish, German, Dutch, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Wheeler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and German/Yiddish.
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 Wheeler, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 98.1% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Indiana. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 10.1% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Wheeler are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% 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, 31.9% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Spanish.
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 Wheeler, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (8.5%), 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 (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.