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Bunker Hill, IN

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Overview


Bunker Hill is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 816 people and just one neighborhood, Bunker Hill is the 351st largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bunker Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.68% of the Bunker Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bunker Hill is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunker Hill who work in sales jobs (22.89%), office and administrative support (12.11%), and management occupations (7.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bunker Hill is worth considering.

Bunker Hill 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.

Demographics

In Bunker Hill, just 11.11% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Bunker Hill in 2022 was $26,019, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,076 for a family of four. However, Bunker Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bunker Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunker Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bunker Hill include German, Irish, English, European, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Bunker Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 86.1% of the neighborhoods in IN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bunker Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 39.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households. Some people also speak Chinese (2.1%).

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 Bunker Hill, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.5%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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