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Pennville, IN

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Overview


Pennville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 617 people and just one neighborhood, Pennville is the 381st largest community in Indiana. Much of the housing stock in Pennville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Pennville is a blue-collar town, with 45.23% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pennville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pennville who work in sales jobs (9.23%), teaching (7.38%), and computer science and math (6.15%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Pennville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Pennville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Pennville have a very low rate of college education: just 9.64% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Pennville in 2022 was $24,718, which is low income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,872 for a family of four. However, Pennville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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, 8.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Pennville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.0% of U.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, 35.2% 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 34.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pennville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (8.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.7%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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