About Kirtland Hills

Kirtland Hills is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 599 people and just one neighborhood, Kirtland Hills is the 661st largest community in Ohio.

Kirtland Hills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.31% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Kirtland Hills is a village of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kirtland Hills who work in management occupations (27.71%), sales jobs (16.24%), and teaching (7.96%).

Of important note, Kirtland Hills is also a village of artists. Kirtland Hills has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Kirtland Hills's character.

A relatively large number of people in Kirtland Hills telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.20% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

In addition, Kirtland Hills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Kirtland Hills is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Kirtland Hills 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 village's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Kirtland Hills has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Kirtland Hills's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Kirtland Hills is a very car-oriented village. 98.57% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Kirtland Hills 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. Kirtland Hills has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small village, Kirtland Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Kirtland Hills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Kirtland Hills is a pretty powerful place. 47.62% of the adults in Kirtland Hills 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 Kirtland Hills in 2000 was $78,896, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $315,584 for a family of four. However, Kirtland Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Kirtland Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Kirtland Hills is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kirtland Hills include Italian, German, Irish, English, Slovene, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Scotch-Irish, Scottish, Swedish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Kirtland Hills is English.