Ohio City is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, Ohio City is the 638th largest community in Ohio. Ohio City has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Ohio City is a blue-collar town, with 59.06% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ohio City is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ohio City who work in healthcare suport services (8.48%), office and administrative support (7.02%), and food service (7.02%).
The village 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, Ohio City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ohio City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small village, Ohio City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Ohio City ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.83% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ohio City in 2022 was $22,834, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,336 for a family of four. However, Ohio City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ohio City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Ohio City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ohio City residents report their race to be White. Ohio City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.10% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ohio City include German, Irish, English, Italian, and African.
The most common language spoken in Ohio City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 5.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 28 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 36.7% have German 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 Ohio City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 64.8% of America'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, 34.2% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Ohio City, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.