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Markle, IN

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Overview


Markle is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,080 people and just one neighborhood, Markle is the 317th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

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%).

A relatively large number of people in Markle telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.51% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Markle’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Markle has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Markle has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Markle than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Markle may be for you.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Markle with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 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.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

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 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.

Getting to Work

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.


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