Argos is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,744 people and just one neighborhood, Argos is the 258th largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Argos, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.17% of Argos’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Argos is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Argos who work in office and administrative support (15.38%), sales jobs (10.47%), and food service (4.16%).
The overall crime rate in Argos is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Argos is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Argos with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.20% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Argos in 2022 was $22,717, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,868 for a family of four. However, Argos contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Argos home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Argos residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Argos include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Argos is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.9% of the neighborhoods in IN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Argos are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.0% of America'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, 35.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.6%).
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 Argos, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (40.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.