Georgetown is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 4,458 people and just one neighborhood, Georgetown is the 294th largest community in Ohio.
When you are in Georgetown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.71% of Georgetown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Georgetown is a village of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Georgetown who work in healthcare (11.73%), office and administrative support (10.13%), and management occupations (9.99%).
Of important note, Georgetown is also a village of artists. Georgetown has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Georgetown’s character.
One downside of living in Georgetown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Georgetown, the average commute to work is 31.12 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In Georgetown, just 12.75% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Georgetown in 2022 was $26,220, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,880 for a family of four. However, Georgetown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Georgetown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Georgetown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Georgetown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Georgetown include German, English, Irish, French, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Georgetown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Other Asian languages.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.1%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Georgetown are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.1% 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 34.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Georgetown, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Mexican 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.