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Ashley, IN

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Overview


Ashley is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,043 people and just one neighborhood, Ashley is the 319th largest community in Indiana.

Ashley real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Ashley house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Ashley is a blue-collar town, with 49.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ashley is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashley who work in sales jobs (9.26%), office and administrative support (7.11%), and maintenance occupations (6.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Ashley 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.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Ashley have a very low rate of college education: just 6.17% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Ashley in 2022 was $26,168, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,672 for a family of four. However, Ashley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ashley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ashley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashley residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ashley include German, English, Irish, Polish, and French.

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

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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 38 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

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 Ashley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% 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, 37.4% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Ashley, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (42.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (13.6%) . 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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