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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

La Fontaine - Somerset is a blue-collar town, with 37.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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%).

A relatively large number of people in La Fontaine - Somerset telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.58% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

La Fontaine - Somerset is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of La Fontaine - Somerset rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.19% of adults 25 and older in La Fontaine - Somerset have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

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

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

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 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 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.

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, 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 the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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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