Losantville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 217 people and just one neighborhood, Losantville is the 459th largest community in Indiana. Losantville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
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 (14.52%), healthcare suport services (10.48%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.68%).
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 9.84% 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.
The overall crime rate in Losantville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small town, Losantville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Losantville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.21% of adults in Losantville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Losantville in 2022 was $30,247, 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 $120,988 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, followed by Native American. 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.
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 Losantville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.2% of the neighborhoods in IN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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 49.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.4% 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 73.2% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 16.7% 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 98.1% of households.
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 Losantville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), 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 (37.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.2%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.