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Bicknell, IN

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Overview


Bicknell is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,016 people and just one neighborhood, Bicknell is the 186th largest community in Indiana. Bicknell has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Bicknell is a blue-collar town, with 38.28% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bicknell is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bicknell who work in healthcare (11.43%), sales jobs (9.73%), and maintenance occupations (8.62%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Bicknell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Bicknell has a very low overall level of education: only 8.00% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Bicknell in 2022 was $29,513, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,052 for a family of four. However, Bicknell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bicknell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bicknell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bicknell include German, English, Irish, European, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Bicknell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.1% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

If you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 57.7% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.

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 Bicknell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.8%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).

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 Bicknell, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (35.3% 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 (9.7%) and 5.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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