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Millersport, OH

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Overview


Millersport is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 970 people and just one neighborhood, Millersport is the 582nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Millersport is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.47% of the Millersport workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Millersport is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Millersport who work in office and administrative support (16.99%), management occupations (12.64%), and teaching (8.06%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Millersport 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. Millersport has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Millersport than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Millersport may be for you.

In Millersport, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.10 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small village, Millersport doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Millersport who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.25% of the adults in Millersport have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Millersport in 2022 was $35,176, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,704 for a family of four. However, Millersport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Millersport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millersport residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millersport include German, Irish, English, Danish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Millersport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Millersport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.1% 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, 36.4% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 14.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Millersport, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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