Fairmount is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,649 people and just one neighborhood, Fairmount is the 196th largest community in Indiana. Fairmount has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Fairmount is a blue-collar town, with 38.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fairmount is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairmount who work in office and administrative support (13.18%), maintenance occupations (6.74%), and sales jobs (6.34%).
The population of Fairmount has a very low overall level of education: only 8.95% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Fairmount in 2022 was $23,169, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,676 for a family of four. However, Fairmount contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fairmount home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fairmount residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fairmount include German, Irish, English, French, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Fairmount is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Fairmount, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Fairmount are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.5% 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, 41.1% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 14.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Fairmount, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.7%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.