Medaryville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 560 people and just one neighborhood, Medaryville is the 395th largest community in Indiana. Medaryville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Medaryville is a blue-collar town, with 44.13% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Medaryville is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Medaryville who work in food service (22.27%), management occupations (8.50%), and healthcare (6.07%).
In Medaryville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.61 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Medaryville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.16% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Medaryville in 2022 was $17,138, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,552 for a family of four. However, Medaryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Medaryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Medaryville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Medaryville include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Medaryville 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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 24 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.6% have Lithuanian 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 Medaryville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.2% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.5%), and 16.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 Medaryville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.6%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.