Dillsboro is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,383 people and just one neighborhood, Dillsboro is the 290th largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Dillsboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.19% of Dillsboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dillsboro is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dillsboro who work in office and administrative support (15.87%), sales jobs (10.32%), and maintenance occupations (5.68%).
In Dillsboro, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.62 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Dillsboro with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.60% of adults in Dillsboro have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dillsboro in 2022 was $25,544, which is low income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,176 for a family of four. However, Dillsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dillsboro is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dillsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dillsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dillsboro include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Dillsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 Dillsboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.2% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.
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 Dillsboro, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.7%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.