Cannelton is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,494 people and just one neighborhood, Cannelton is the 280th largest community in Indiana.
Cannelton is a blue-collar town, with 52.69% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cannelton is a city of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cannelton who work in sales jobs (7.62%), food service (7.17%), and office and administrative support (6.73%).
The city 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, Cannelton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cannelton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Cannelton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Cannelton, just 9.72% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cannelton in 2022 was $21,777, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,108 for a family of four. However, Cannelton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cannelton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.90% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Cannelton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cannelton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cannelton include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cannelton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
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 Cannelton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.5% of U.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, 50.6% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (12.6%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.
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 Cannelton, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (22.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (20.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.