Boswell - Earl Park is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,292 people and just one neighborhood, Boswell - Earl Park is the 222nd largest community in Indiana. Boswell - Earl Park 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 Boswell - Earl Park, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.45% of Boswell - Earl Park’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Boswell - Earl Park is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boswell - Earl Park who work in management occupations (13.36%), office and administrative support (10.04%), and food service (9.36%).
Even though Boswell - Earl Park is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Boswell - Earl Park rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.77% of adults 25 and older in Boswell - Earl Park have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Boswell - Earl Park in 2022 was $38,860, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,440 for a family of four. However, Boswell - Earl Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Boswell - Earl Park is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Boswell - Earl Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Boswell - Earl Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Boswell - Earl Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Boswell - Earl Park include German, English, Irish, French, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Boswell - Earl Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.0% of 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 Boswell - Earl Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 35.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.3% 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, 39.6% 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.0%).
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 Boswell - Earl Park, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (28.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (8.5%) and 5.1% of residents also ride the bus 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.