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Cardington, OH

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Overview


Cardington is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,082 people and just one neighborhood, Cardington is the 457th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cardington, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.11% of Cardington’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cardington is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cardington who work in office and administrative support (13.44%), sales jobs (13.04%), and management occupations (7.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Cardington, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.48 minutes every day commuting to work.

Cardington 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.

Demographics

In Cardington, just 9.75% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cardington in 2018 was $25,645, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,580 for a family of four. However, Cardington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cardington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cardington residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cardington include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cardington, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Cardington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 37.0% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Cardington, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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