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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

Thorntown is a blue-collar town, with 35.35% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Thorntown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thorntown who work in office and administrative support (10.48%), management occupations (9.95%), and sales jobs (6.22%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Thorntown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Thorntown is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.68% of adults 25 and older in Thorntown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Thorntown in 2018 was $29,508, 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 $118,032 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 Irish, German, English, Polish, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

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, 1.8% 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 76.1% 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, 36.5% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% 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 (7.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Danish ancestry (1.3%).

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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.4%) 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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