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Morral, OH

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Overview


Morral is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 371 people and just one neighborhood, Morral is the 719th largest community in Ohio. Morral has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Morral is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.34% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Morral is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morral who work in office and administrative support (17.56%), healthcare (14.63%), and sales jobs (13.17%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Morral is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Morral 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, Morral has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Morral’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

The village 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, Morral has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Morral a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Morral who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.05% of adults in Morral have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Morral in 2018 was $31,062, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,248 for a family of four. However, Morral contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Morral home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morral residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Morral include German, Irish, English, Hungarian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Morral is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Morral, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of particular note, 3.5% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, of note, 55.2% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 1.1% have Romanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Morral are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% 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, 28.0% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.3%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Morral, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Brazilian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.1% 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 addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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