Jonesville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 179 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesville is the 470th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Jonesville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Jonesville real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Jonesville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Jonesville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 72.09% of the Jonesville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Jonesville is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesville who work in office and administrative support (9.30%), maintenance occupations (4.65%), and legal occupations (3.49%).
The overall crime rate in Jonesville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Jonesville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Jonesville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jonesville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jonesville may be for you.
Being a small town, Jonesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Jonesville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.77% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Jonesville in 2022 was $41,775, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,100 for a family of four. However, Jonesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jonesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jonesville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jonesville include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Jonesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Other Asian languages.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Indiana. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Urdu, which is the national language of Pakistan, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Jonesville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 41.2% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.6%), and 14.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 Jonesville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (7.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others. In addition, 11.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (40.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.3%) 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.