About Greenville

Greenville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 620 people and just one neighborhood, Greenville is the 366th largest community in Indiana.

Greenville is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greenville is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenville who work in management occupations (18.63%), office and administrative support jobs (13.69%), and sales jobs (9.51%).

Also of interest is that Greenville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Greenville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Greenville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Greenville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Greenville's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Greenville is a very car-oriented town. 98.35% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Greenville 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. Greenville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Greenville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Greenville Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Greenville is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 20.10% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Greenville in 2000 was $24,343, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,372 for a family of four.

The people who call Greenville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Greenville is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenville include German, Irish, English, Norwegian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Greenville is English.