Jonesville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 180 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesville is the 470th largest community in Indiana. Jonesville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Jonesville real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Jonesville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Jonesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 60.20% of the Jonesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Jonesville is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesville who work in maintenance occupations (9.18%), office and administrative support (8.16%), and sales jobs (7.14%).
Overall, Jonesville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Jonesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jonesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Jonesville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Jonesville, just 7.24% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Jonesville in 2022 was $31,158, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,632 for a family of four. However, Jonesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jonesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jonesville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jonesville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Jonesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Other Asian languages.
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 Jonesville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Indiana. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% 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 Jonesville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.3% of America'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, 40.5% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 14.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 82.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 Jonesville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (45.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.