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Clyde, OH

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Overview


Clyde is a somewhat small city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 6,318 people and just one neighborhood, Clyde is the 237th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clyde is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.65% of the Clyde workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clyde is a city of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clyde who work in office and administrative support (9.56%), food service (5.92%), and teaching (4.34%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Clyde is worth considering.

One of the benefits of Clyde is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.43 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Clyde who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.69% of the adults in Clyde have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Clyde in 2018 was $29,921, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,684 for a family of four. However, Clyde contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 94.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 45.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.6% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 39.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.3% have Welsh 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 Clyde are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.3% 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, 45.8% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

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 Clyde, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (94.0%) 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 (5.5%) . 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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