About Bentleyville

Bentleyville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 947 people and just one neighborhood, Bentleyville is the 629th largest community in Ohio.

Bentleyville is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 97.66% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Bentleyville is a village of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bentleyville who work in management occupations (27.34%), sales jobs (16.41%), and healthcare (14.32%).

Also of interest is that Bentleyville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Bentleyville is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Because of many things, Bentleyville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Bentleyville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bentleyville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Bentleyville is a very car-oriented village. 98.05% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Bentleyville is a small village, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Bentleyville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Bentleyville is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Bentleyville Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Bentleyville is a pretty powerful place. 77.30% of the adults in Bentleyville have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Bentleyville in 2000 was $72,392, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $289,568 for a family of four. However, Bentleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bentleyville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bentleyville is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bentleyville include German, Italian, English, Irish, Polish, French, European, Hungarian, Norwegian, Russian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Bentleyville is English.