About Sheffield

Sheffield is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,949 people and just one neighborhood, Sheffield is the 444th largest community in Ohio.

Sheffield is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sheffield is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sheffield who work in management occupations (13.50%), sales jobs (11.12%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.92%).

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

Sheffield is a very car-oriented village. 98.75% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Sheffield 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. Sheffield has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Sheffield is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Sheffield Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Sheffield is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 22.76% of adults 25 and older in the village have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sheffield in 2000 was $25,218, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,872 for a family of four. However, Sheffield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sheffield is English. Some people also speak Spanish.