Plainville is a tiny town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 495 people and just one neighborhood, Plainville is the 407th largest community in Indiana. Plainville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Plainville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.55% of Plainville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Plainville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Plainville who work in management occupations (7.73%), office and administrative support (6.70%), and maintenance occupations (6.70%).
Overall, Plainville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Plainville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Plainville, the average commute to work is 30.22 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Plainville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.09% of adults 25 and older in Plainville 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 Plainville in 2022 was $25,168, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,672 for a family of four. However, Plainville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Plainville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Plainville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Plainville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Plainville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.97% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Plainville include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Plainville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.4% of America.
Significantly, 14.1% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in 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 Plainville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.3% 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 77.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.3% 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 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.2%), and 12.5% 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 85.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (14.1%).
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 Plainville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.4%) 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 (20.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.