Wakarusa is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,999 people and just one neighborhood, Wakarusa is the 244th largest community in Indiana.
Wakarusa real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Wakarusa house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Wakarusa is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wakarusa is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wakarusa who work in office and administrative support (13.20%), management occupations (9.48%), and sales jobs (9.12%).
Because of many things, Wakarusa is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Wakarusa 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, Wakarusa has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Wakarusa’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
As is often the case in a small town, Wakarusa doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Wakarusa who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.24% of adults in Wakarusa have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wakarusa in 2022 was $29,548, 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 $118,192 for a family of four. However, Wakarusa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wakarusa is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wakarusa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wakarusa residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wakarusa include German, English, Irish, Swiss, and French.
The most common language spoken in Wakarusa 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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Indiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Wakarusa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% 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, 36.0% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 14.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.8%).
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 Wakarusa, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (38.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.