Knightstown is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,150 people and just one neighborhood, Knightstown is the 233rd largest community in Indiana. Knightstown has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Knightstown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Knightstown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Knightstown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Knightstown who work in office and administrative support (18.34%), sales jobs (14.03%), and healthcare (10.62%).
Overall, Knightstown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small town, Knightstown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Knightstown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.97% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Knightstown in 2022 was $28,443, 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 $113,772 for a family of four. However, Knightstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Knightstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Knightstown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Knightstown include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Knightstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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.
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 89.7% 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.
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 Knightstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.1% 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, 27.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.9%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% 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 Knightstown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (36.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.