Rome City is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,301 people and just one neighborhood, Rome City is the 295th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Rome City was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rome City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.42% of the Rome City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rome City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rome City who work in office and administrative support (11.82%), sales jobs (8.63%), and business and financial occupations (6.07%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rome City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rome City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rome City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rome City may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Rome City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Rome City citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.04% of adults 25 and older in Rome City have a college degree.
The per capita income in Rome City in 2022 was $40,565, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,260 for a family of four. However, Rome City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rome City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rome City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rome City include German, English, European, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Rome City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Rome City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 2.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Rome City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 40.4% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Rome City, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (16.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.