Williamsport - New Holland is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,403 people and just one neighborhood, Williamsport - New Holland is the 367th largest community in Ohio. Williamsport - New Holland has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Williamsport - New Holland is a blue-collar town, with 35.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Williamsport - New Holland is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Williamsport - New Holland who work in management occupations (16.60%), office and administrative support (12.92%), and healthcare (8.25%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.56% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One downside of living in Williamsport - New Holland is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Williamsport - New Holland, the average commute to work is 32.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Williamsport - New Holland who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.95% of the adults in Williamsport - New Holland have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Williamsport - New Holland in 2022 was $35,098, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,392 for a family of four. However, Williamsport - New Holland contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Williamsport - New Holland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Williamsport - New Holland residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Williamsport - New Holland include German, English, Irish, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Williamsport - New Holland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian 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 Williamsport - New Holland are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 31.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.5% 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, 34.8% 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 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 14.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Williamsport - New Holland, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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.