Jasonville is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,008 people and just one neighborhood, Jasonville is the 246th largest community in Indiana. Jasonville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Jasonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.51% of the Jasonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Jasonville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jasonville who work in sales jobs (11.60%), healthcare suport services (10.23%), and food service (6.75%).
Jasonville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Jasonville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.21% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Jasonville in 2022 was $19,537, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,148 for a family of four. However, Jasonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jasonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jasonville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Jasonville include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Jasonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Jasonville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 3.8% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 98.1% of America's neighborhoods.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.9% of American neighborhoods.
Significantly, 2.3% 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 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Jasonville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% 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, 42.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.0%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.3%).
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 Jasonville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.