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Pleasantville, OH

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Overview


Pleasantville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 942 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasantville is the 590th largest community in Ohio. Pleasantville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Pleasantville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Pleasantville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Pleasantville is a blue-collar town, with 42.30% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pleasantville is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasantville who work in food service (12.08%), office and administrative support (8.46%), and business and financial occupations (6.34%).

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

One downside of living in Pleasantville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.92 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In Pleasantville, just 7.58% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pleasantville in 2022 was $23,680, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,720 for a family of four. However, Pleasantville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasantville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 10.8% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Ohio.

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 Pleasantville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.2% 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 78.3% 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, 53.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.0%), and 12.0% 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 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Pleasantville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report English roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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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