Cairo is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 502 people and just one neighborhood, Cairo is the 666th largest community in Ohio. Cairo has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Unlike some villages, Cairo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cairo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cairo is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cairo who work in office and administrative support (14.95%), sales jobs (13.24%), and maintenance occupations (12.01%).
Overall, Cairo’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cairo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cairo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Cairo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Cairo are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.92% of adults in Cairo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Cairo in 2022 was $30,060, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,240 for a family of four. However, Cairo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cairo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cairo residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cairo include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Cairo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Thai.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Ohio. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 4.0% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Cairo are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.1% 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 74.8% 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, 35.5% 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 34.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.6%).
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 Cairo, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (8.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.