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Dexter City, OH

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Overview


Dexter City is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 78 people and just one neighborhood, Dexter City is the 814th largest community in Ohio. Dexter City has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Dexter City is a blue-collar town, with 54.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dexter City is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dexter City who work in office and administrative support (15.79%), personal care services (7.02%), and maintenance occupations (5.26%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.29% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Overall, Dexter City’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

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

Demographics

Dexter City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.66% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Dexter City in 2018 was $23,675, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,700 for a family of four. However, Dexter City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dexter City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dexter City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dexter City include Welsh, Dutch, Russian, German, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Dexter City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.4% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dexter City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.1% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.8%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.9%).

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 Dexter City, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.6%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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