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Henryville, IN

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Overview


Henryville is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,878 people and just one neighborhood, Henryville is the 251st largest community in Indiana. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Henryville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Henryville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Henryville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Henryville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $72,768.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Henryville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.23% of the Henryville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Henryville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Henryville who work in management occupations (9.51%), sales jobs (9.20%), and healthcare (8.48%).

Also of interest is that Henryville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.43% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Henryville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Henryville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Despite being a small town, Henryville has a lot of people using the subway to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the subway are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Henryville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.01% of adults in Henryville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Henryville in 2022 was $29,696, which is middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,784 for a family of four. However, Henryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Henryville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Henryville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American neighborhoods.

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 Henryville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.8% 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 65.2% 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, 42.2% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.4%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Henryville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.0%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (42.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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