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Monroeville, IN

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Overview


Monroeville is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,330 people and just one neighborhood, Monroeville is the 297th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Monroeville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.37% of Monroeville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Monroeville is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroeville who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), sales jobs (7.95%), and food service (7.39%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Monroeville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Monroeville, the average commute to work is 31.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Monroeville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Monroeville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.22% of adults 25 and older in Monroeville 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 Monroeville in 2022 was $30,023, 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 $120,092 for a family of four. However, Monroeville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more French and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.4% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.9% have Swiss ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Monroeville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.7% 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 68.4% 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, 39.4% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 16.6% 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 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (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 Monroeville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.8%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (9.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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