Markle is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,079 people and just one neighborhood, Markle is the 317th largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Markle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.97% of the Markle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Markle is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Markle who work in office and administrative support (7.81%), management occupations (7.47%), and food service (6.96%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.51% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Markle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Markle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Markle 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 Markle are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.23% of adults in Markle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Markle in 2022 was $29,197, 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 $116,788 for a family of four. However, Markle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Markle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Markle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Markle include German, English, Scandinavian, Scottish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Markle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 Markle are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.9% 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 65.0% 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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Markle, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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.