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Jackson Center, OH

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Overview


Jackson Center is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,429 people and just one neighborhood, Jackson Center is the 521st largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Jackson Center is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.31% of the Jackson Center workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Jackson Center is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jackson Center who work in office and administrative support (14.62%), teaching (13.23%), and healthcare (9.54%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Jackson Center’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Jackson Center are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.73% of adults in Jackson Center having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Jackson Center in 2018 was $41,769, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,076 for a family of four. However, Jackson Center contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Ohio. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 41.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Jackson Center are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.6% of America'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, 35.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Jackson Center, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.7%) 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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