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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. Much of the housing stock in Thorntown was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

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, Thorntown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Thorntown are a mix 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%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.96% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

Demographics

The education level of Thorntown citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.05% of adults in Thorntown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Thorntown in 2018 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

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 Thorntown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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.

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, 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

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

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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