Huntertown is a medium-sized town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 11,316 people and just one neighborhood, Huntertown is the 91st largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Huntertown was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Huntertown economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Huntertown, where the median household income is $104,808.00.
Huntertown real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Huntertown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Huntertown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Huntertown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Huntertown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntertown who work in sales jobs (13.40%), healthcare (12.23%), and management occupations (11.70%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.61% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Huntertown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Huntertown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Huntertown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Huntertown’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Huntertown 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 citizens of Huntertown are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.93% of adults in Huntertown have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Huntertown in 2022 was $40,155, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,620 for a family of four. However, Huntertown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Huntertown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Huntertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntertown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Huntertown include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Huntertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
A majority of the adults in the neighborhood are wealthy and educated executives. They own stately homes that tend to maintain high real estate appreciation rates. Their upper-level careers keep them busy, but allow them to live comfortably. If you're an executive and want to keep similar company, consider settling in this neighborhood, rated as an executive lifestyle "best choice" neighborhood for Indiana by NeighborhoodScout's analysis, which rated it as better for executive lifestyles than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in Indiana.
Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 70.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% 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 Huntertown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.0% 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 71.1% of America'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, 62.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 14.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.4%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region) and Polish.
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 Huntertown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Asian roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.7%), among others. In addition, 10.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (51.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.