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Unionville, IN

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Overview


Unionville is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,654 people and just one neighborhood, Unionville is the 264th largest community in Indiana.

Unionville real estate is some of the most expensive in Indiana, although Unionville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Unionville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Unionville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Unionville is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Unionville who work in business and financial occupations (11.28%), healthcare (10.58%), and management occupations (9.40%).

Of important note, Unionville is also a town of artists. Unionville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Unionville’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 18.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Unionville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Unionville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Unionville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Unionville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

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

Demographics

The overall education level of Unionville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.81% of adults in Unionville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Unionville in 2022 was $43,172, which is wealthy relative to Indiana, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,688 for a family of four. However, Unionville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Unionville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Unionville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Unionville include German, English, Polish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Unionville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Other Asian languages.

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.

People

If you are planning to retire in Indiana, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Indiana, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.9% of neighborhoods in IN. If a Indiana retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.7% 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 97.6% 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 Unionville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.2% 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 74.3% 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, 50.5% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 8.1% 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 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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 Unionville, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (66.5%) 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 (13.9%) . 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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