Tipton is a somewhat small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 5,245 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tipton is the 122nd largest community in Indiana. Tipton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.Tipton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tipton is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tipton who work in office and administrative support (12.75%), sales jobs (7.81%), and business and financial occupations (6.92%). Also of interest is that Tipton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small city, Tipton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Tipton overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Tipton, 23.22% have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Tipton in 2022 was $35,063, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,252 for a family of four. However, Tipton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Tipton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tipton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tipton include English, German, Irish, European, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Tipton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
