Losantville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 220 people and just one neighborhood, Losantville is the 459th largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Losantville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Losantville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Losantville is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Losantville who work in computer science and math (14.81%), healthcare suport services (11.85%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.37%).
Also of interest is that Losantville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Losantville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.85% 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.
Overall, Losantville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Losantville 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.
The percentage of adults in Losantville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.95% of adults in Losantville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Losantville in 2022 was $28,507, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,028 for a family of four. However, Losantville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Losantville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Losantville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Losantville include German, English, Irish, Greek, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Losantville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Korean.
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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 93.8% 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 Losantville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.6% of America'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, 31.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 18.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Losantville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.