Pine Village is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 213 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Village is the 463rd largest community in Indiana. Pine Village has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pine Village is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Village is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Village who work in office and administrative support (17.21%), management occupations (14.75%), and sales jobs (9.84%).
Also of interest is that Pine Village has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Pine Village is worth considering.
One downside of living in Pine Village is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pine Village, the average commute to work is 31.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Pine Village does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Pine Village ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 1.66% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pine Village in 2022 was $25,229, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,916 for a family of four. However, Pine Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Village is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Village residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Pine Village include German, Lithuanian, Scottish, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Pine Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 Pine Village are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.3% 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, 34.0% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
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 Pine Village, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.7%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.