Royal Center is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 797 people and just one neighborhood, Royal Center is the 353rd largest community in Indiana. Royal Center has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Royal Center, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.76% of Royal Center’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Royal Center is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Royal Center who work in healthcare (14.29%), management occupations (9.62%), and office and administrative support (6.04%).
For a small town, Royal Center has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Royal Center exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The citizens of Royal Center are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.97% of adults in Royal Center having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Royal Center in 2022 was $25,151, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,604 for a family of four. However, Royal Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Royal Center home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Royal Center residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Royal Center include Irish, German, English, Swedish, and Icelander.
The most common language spoken in Royal Center is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 38 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Royal Center are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.4% 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, 39.4% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.4%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.2%).
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 Royal Center, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.