Neffs is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 878 people and just one neighborhood, Neffs is the 598th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Neffs was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Neffs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.37% of the Neffs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Neffs is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Neffs who work in office and administrative support (14.23%), sales jobs (11.38%), and food service (6.30%).
Also of interest is that Neffs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Neffs is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The town 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, Neffs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Neffs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Neffs is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Neffs, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Neffs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Neffs ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.21% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Neffs in 2022 was $25,031, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,124 for a family of four. However, Neffs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Neffs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Neffs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Neffs include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Neffs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.6% have Ukrainian ancestry.
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 Neffs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% 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, 32.7% 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Neffs, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (53.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.6%) 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.