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Fairlawn, OH

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Overview


Fairlawn is a somewhat small city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 7,662 people and just one neighborhood, Fairlawn is the 205th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Fairlawn is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.68% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fairlawn is a city of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairlawn who work in management occupations (15.22%), sales jobs (13.57%), and teaching (10.32%).

Also of interest is that Fairlawn 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 Fairlawn telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.02% 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

Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Fairlawn. 51.75% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.

The per capita income in Fairlawn in 2018 was $59,280, which is wealthy relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $237,120 for a family of four. However, Fairlawn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Fairlawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

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 Fairlawn, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 1.8% have Hungarian 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 Fairlawn are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.0% 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, 48.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (11.8%), and 6.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.8% 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 Fairlawn, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 (43.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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