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Paulding, OH

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Overview


Paulding is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,546 people and just one neighborhood, Paulding is the 343rd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Paulding, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.73% of Paulding’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Paulding is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paulding who work in office and administrative support (11.92%), management occupations (11.79%), and healthcare (10.19%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In Paulding, just 12.52% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Paulding in 2018 was $28,062, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,248 for a family of four. However, Paulding contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Paulding is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Paulding home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paulding residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Paulding also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.67% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Paulding include German, Irish, English, French, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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 Paulding are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% 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, 34.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Paulding, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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