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Huntsburg, OH

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Overview


Huntsburg is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,662 people and just one neighborhood, Huntsburg is the 339th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Huntsburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.51% of the Huntsburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Huntsburg is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Huntsburg who work in maintenance occupations (10.56%), healthcare suport services (10.50%), and management occupations (8.94%).

A relatively large number of people in Huntsburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.01% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, Huntsburg is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Huntsburg 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, Huntsburg has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Huntsburg’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Huntsburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Huntsburg, the average commute to work is 35.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

In Huntsburg, just 12.64% 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 Huntsburg in 2022 was $30,215, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,860 for a family of four. However, Huntsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Huntsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Huntsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Huntsburg include Pennsylvania German, German, Slovene, Croatian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Huntsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (37.4%) than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 42.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

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 7.9% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 6.0% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 40.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Huntsburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 38.4% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 13.2% 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 57.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Huntsburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Croatian ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Polish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (6.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (45.2%) 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 (37.4%) . 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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