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.
As is often the case in a small town, Losantville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Losantville rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.95% of adults 25 and older in Losantville 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 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.8% of America.
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 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.
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, 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.
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 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.
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 (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.