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Blanchester, OH

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Overview


Blanchester is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 4,217 people and just one neighborhood, Blanchester is the 300th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Blanchester is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blanchester is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blanchester who work in sales jobs (13.14%), office and administrative support (11.97%), and food service (8.68%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Blanchester telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.61% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Blanchester, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.69 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Blanchester have a very low rate of college education: just 9.78% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Blanchester in 2018 was $23,049, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,196 for a family of four. However, Blanchester contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Blanchester is English. Other important languages spoken here include Armenian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Blanchester are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.3%), and 20.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Blanchester, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.9%).

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (76.0%) 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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