Osgood is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,588 people and just one neighborhood, Osgood is the 273rd largest community in Indiana.
Osgood is a blue-collar town, with 36.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Osgood is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Osgood who work in food service (12.92%), office and administrative support (10.05%), and healthcare suport services (6.94%).
Overall, Osgood’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, Osgood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Osgood, just 11.44% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Osgood in 2022 was $23,881, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,524 for a family of four. However, Osgood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Osgood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osgood residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Osgood include German, Irish, English, French, and British.
The most common language spoken in Osgood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India 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.
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 Osgood are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 69.8% of America'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, 32.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Osgood, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.8%).
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 (32.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.