Remington is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,360 people and just one neighborhood, Remington is the 291st largest community in Indiana. Remington has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Remington, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.93% of Remington’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Remington is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Remington who work in office and administrative support (13.83%), maintenance occupations (7.61%), and sales jobs (7.47%).
Also of interest is that Remington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small town, Remington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Remington is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.41% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Remington in 2022 was $35,151, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,604 for a family of four. However, Remington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Remington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Remington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Remington include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Remington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
An extraordinary 11.8% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 25 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss 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 Remington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.5% 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, 31.0% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.8%).
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 Remington, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (13.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.