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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 1,317 people and just one neighborhood, Monroeville is the 297th largest community in Indiana.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Monroeville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.32% of the Monroeville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Monroeville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroeville who work in food service (8.68%), office and administrative support (8.30%), and sales jobs (7.92%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Monroeville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Monroeville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.20 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Monroeville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Monroeville have a very low rate of college education: just 9.92% 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 Monroeville in 2018 was $26,730, which is lower middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,920 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. 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

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

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, 9.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French ancestry and 1.7% have Swiss ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.8% 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, 47.8% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.2%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Monroeville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report French roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.0%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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