Fontanet is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 347 people and just one neighborhood, Fontanet is the 432nd largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Fontanet, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.95% of Fontanet’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fontanet is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fontanet who work in office and administrative support (35.06%), healthcare suport services (12.99%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Overall, Fontanet’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Fontanet 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. Fontanet has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fontanet than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fontanet may be for you.
One downside of living in Fontanet is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fontanet, the average commute to work is 40.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fontanet is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Fontanet is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Fontanet has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, Fontanet doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Fontanet is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.96% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Fontanet in 2022 was $19,434, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,736 for a family of four.
The people who call Fontanet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fontanet residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Fontanet include Irish, German, Dutch, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Fontanet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and German/Yiddish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 21.2% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.5% of the neighborhoods in IN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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 Fontanet are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.2% 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, 34.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.9%), and 16.6% 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 94.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Chinese.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Fontanet, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (50.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (10.2%) and 7.9% 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.