Bicknell is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,989 people and just one neighborhood, Bicknell is the 186th largest community in Indiana. Bicknell has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Bicknell is a blue-collar town, with 35.96% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bicknell is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bicknell who work in healthcare (13.01%), sales jobs (9.01%), and office and administrative support (8.07%).
One downside of living in Bicknell, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.36 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Bicknell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Bicknell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.06% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bicknell in 2022 was $31,180, 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 $124,720 for a family of four. However, Bicknell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bicknell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bicknell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bicknell include German, English, Irish, Hungarian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Bicknell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Tagalog.
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.
Do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 59.4% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian 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 Bicknell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% 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, 40.1% 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.8%).
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 Bicknell, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (2.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.