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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 3,472 people and just one neighborhood, La Fontaine - Somerset is the 167th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in La Fontaine - Somerset, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.49% of La Fontaine - Somerset’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, La Fontaine - Somerset is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Fontaine - Somerset who work in office and administrative support (10.59%), sales jobs (9.25%), and healthcare suport services (7.91%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.58% 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, La Fontaine - Somerset does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in La Fontaine - Somerset with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.19% of adults in La Fontaine - Somerset have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Fontaine - Somerset in 2022 was $33,407, 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 $133,628 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 Scottish.

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

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.0% of America.

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 La Fontaine - Somerset are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.9% 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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 18.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% 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 La Fontaine - Somerset, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.4%).

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 (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (10.4%) . 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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