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Thorntown, IN

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Overview


Thorntown is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,412 people and just one neighborhood, Thorntown is the 284th largest community in Indiana. Thorntown has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Thorntown real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Thorntown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Thorntown is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Thorntown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Thorntown who work in office and administrative support (12.89%), management occupations (10.14%), and healthcare suport services (7.73%).

A relatively large number of people in Thorntown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.96% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Thorntown 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.

Demographics

The population of Thorntown overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Thorntown, 21.05% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Thorntown in 2022 was $31,658, 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 $126,632 for a family of four. However, Thorntown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Thorntown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thorntown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Thorntown include German, English, Irish, European, and Swiss.

The most common language spoken in Thorntown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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 Thorntown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.5% 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 73.3% of America'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, 34.2% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Thorntown, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (1.3%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (34.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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