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Lake Village, IN

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Overview


Lake Village is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 748 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Village is the 360th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lake Village is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 49.43% of the Lake Village workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lake Village is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Village who work in sales jobs (20.91%), food service (10.27%), and community and social services (8.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Lake Village is worth considering.

One downside of living in Lake Village, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 40.59 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Lake Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Lake Village citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.13% of adults in Lake Village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lake Village in 2022 was $36,354, 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 $145,416 for a family of four. However, Lake Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lake Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Village residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lake Village include Polish, German, English, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Lake Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 6.4% have Swedish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lake Village are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.7% 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, 48.1% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Lake Village, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (34.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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