About Ottawa Hills

Ottawa Hills is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 4,546 people and just one neighborhood, Ottawa Hills is the 326th largest community in Ohio.

Ottawa Hills is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 93.19% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ottawa Hills is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ottawa Hills who work in management occupations (19.11%), healthcare (14.79%), and sales jobs (12.60%).

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

One of the benefits of Ottawa Hills is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.17 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Ottawa Hills is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Ottawa Hills 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. 98.89% 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.

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

Ottawa Hills Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Ottawa Hills. 68.83% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Ottawa Hills in 2000 was $58,846, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $235,384 for a family of four. However, Ottawa Hills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Ottawa Hills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Urdu.