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La Fontaine - Somerset, IN

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Overview


La Fontaine - Somerset is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 3,490 people and just one neighborhood, La Fontaine - Somerset is the 167th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

La Fontaine - Somerset is a blue-collar town, with 37.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, La Fontaine - Somerset is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in La Fontaine - Somerset who work in sales jobs (12.71%), office and administrative support (11.83%), and healthcare suport services (7.87%).

Setting & Lifestyle

La Fontaine - Somerset 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 percentage of people in La Fontaine - Somerset with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Fontaine - Somerset in 2018 was $34,953, 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 $139,812 for a family of four. However, La Fontaine - Somerset contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in La Fontaine - Somerset is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 La Fontaine - Somerset are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.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, 37.1% 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 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 19.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 La Fontaine - Somerset, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report English roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (1.9%).

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (9.6%) . 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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