About Dent

Dent is a somewhat small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 7,749 people and just one neighborhood, Dent is the 237th largest community in Ohio.

Dent is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Dent is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dent who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.24%), sales jobs (12.13%), and management occupations (8.30%).

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

In addition, Dent is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Dent 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, Dent really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Dent 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.

Dent is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Dent isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.3% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Dent Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Dent is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 24.56% of adults in Dent have a college degree.

The per capita income in Dent in 2000 was $24,403, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,612 for a family of four.

The people who call Dent home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Dent is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dent include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Dent is English.