Quaker City is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 379 people and just one neighborhood, Quaker City is the 718th largest community in Ohio. Quaker City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Quaker City real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Quaker City house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Quaker City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Quaker City is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Quaker City who work in healthcare (16.96%), office and administrative support (12.50%), and healthcare suport services (12.50%).
Overall, Quaker City’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Quaker City 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. Quaker City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Quaker City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Quaker City may be for you.
One downside of living in Quaker City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.47 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Quaker City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Quaker City has a very low overall level of education: only 6.94% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Quaker City in 2022 was $33,350, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,400 for a family of four. However, Quaker City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Quaker City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Quaker City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Quaker City include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Quaker City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Quaker City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (24.6%) than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.0% of American neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.1% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.7% 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 99.7% 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 Quaker City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.8% 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, 41.3% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.6%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 Quaker City, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report English roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (24.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.