Ohioville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,300 people and just one neighborhood, Ohioville is the 455th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Ohioville is a blue-collar town, with 36.99% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ohioville is a borough of professionals, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ohioville who work in management occupations (12.78%), office and administrative support (8.16%), and healthcare (7.06%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.71% 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.
Because of many things, Ohioville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ohioville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Ohioville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ohioville’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
The borough 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, Ohioville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ohioville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Ohioville is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Ohioville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.95% of the adults in Ohioville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ohioville in 2022 was $34,239, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,956 for a family of four. However, Ohioville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ohioville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ohioville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ohioville include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Serbian.
The most common language spoken in Ohioville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Scandinavian languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 1.3% have Slovak ancestry.
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 Ohioville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 59.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 36.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Ohioville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (83.0%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.