Dillsboro is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,379 people and just one neighborhood, Dillsboro is the 290th largest community in Indiana.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dillsboro is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.05% of the Dillsboro workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dillsboro is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dillsboro who work in office and administrative support (14.75%), sales jobs (13.79%), and healthcare suport services (6.47%).
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, Dillsboro has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dillsboro a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Dillsboro, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.27 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Dillsboro 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 rate of college-level education in Dillsboro is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.69% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dillsboro in 2022 was $26,363, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,452 for a family of four. However, Dillsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dillsboro is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dillsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dillsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dillsboro include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Dillsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch 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 Dillsboro are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.1% 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, 35.5% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.6%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Dillsboro, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.3%) 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 (8.4%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.