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Mentone, IN

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Overview


Mentone is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 938 people and just one neighborhood, Mentone is the 331st largest community in Indiana. Mentone has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mentone is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.19% of the Mentone workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mentone 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 Mentone who work in office and administrative support (14.53%), healthcare suport services (6.51%), and sales jobs (3.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Mentone has a very low overall level of education: only 8.98% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Mentone in 2022 was $30,668, 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 $122,672 for a family of four. However, Mentone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mentone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mentone residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mentone include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.

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

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

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss 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 Mentone are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.6% of America'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, 47.6% 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 19.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 14.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.5%).

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 Mentone, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 (50.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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