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Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas.
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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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New Salisbury is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 550 people and just one neighborhood, New Salisbury is the 401st largest community in Indiana.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in New Salisbury, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.34% of New Salisbury’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Salisbury is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Salisbury who work in office and administrative support (19.84%), maintenance occupations (14.98%), and management occupations (6.07%).
Also of interest is that New Salisbury has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Because of many things, New Salisbury is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, New Salisbury really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is New Salisbury perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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, New Salisbury has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Salisbury a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in New Salisbury is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Salisbury, the average commute to work is 37.65 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, New Salisbury doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The education level of New Salisbury citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.41% of adults 25 and older in New Salisbury have a college degree.
The per capita income in New Salisbury in 2022 was $32,485, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,940 for a family of four. However, New Salisbury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. New Salisbury also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.69% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call New Salisbury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Salisbury residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Salisbury include Irish, German, French, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in New Salisbury is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 40.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 New Salisbury are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 60.3% 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, 34.1% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.8%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.0%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 New Salisbury, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report English roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
