Jonesboro is a very small city located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 1,499 people and just one neighborhood, Jonesboro is the 281st largest community in Indiana.
When you are in Jonesboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.62% of Jonesboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jonesboro is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Jonesboro who work in office and administrative support (10.62%), food service (7.04%), and healthcare (5.58%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Jonesboro has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Jonesboro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jonesboro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jonesboro may be for you.
Jonesboro 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 percentage of people in Jonesboro with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.95% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Jonesboro in 2022 was $27,887, which is middle income relative to Indiana, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,548 for a family of four. However, Jonesboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Jonesboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jonesboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jonesboro include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Jonesboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Jonesboro are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.0% 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, 39.7% 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 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
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 Jonesboro, IN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.4%) 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 (6.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.