Killbuck is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 811 people and just one neighborhood, Killbuck is the 605th largest community in Ohio. Killbuck has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Killbuck is a blue-collar town, with 40.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Killbuck is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Killbuck who work in office and administrative support (17.18%), sales jobs (13.90%), and food service (7.14%).
Killbuck is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, Killbuck ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Killbuck in 2022 was $33,774, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,096 for a family of four. However, Killbuck contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Killbuck home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Killbuck residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Killbuck include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in Killbuck is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Polish.
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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Killbuck are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% 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, 35.9% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.6%).
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 Killbuck, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (4.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (45.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.