Moores Hill is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 686 people and just one neighborhood, Moores Hill is the 373rd largest community in Indiana.
Moores Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Moores Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Moores Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.60% of the Moores Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Moores Hill is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moores Hill who work in office and administrative support (20.00%), food service (6.40%), and the sciences (6.40%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Moores Hill has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
The town 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, Moores Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Moores Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Moores Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Moores Hill, the average commute to work is 35.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Moores 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.
The population of Moores Hill has a very low overall level of education: only 8.24% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Moores Hill in 2022 was $25,756, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,024 for a family of four. However, Moores Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Moores Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moores Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Moores Hill include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Moores Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Serbo-Croatian.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 46.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.8% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Moores Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.9% 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, 31.5% 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 27.3% 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 17.9% 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 Moores Hill, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.