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Lafayette, OH

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Overview


Lafayette is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 400 people and just one neighborhood, Lafayette is the 705th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Lafayette was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lafayette, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.30% of Lafayette’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lafayette is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lafayette who work in office and administrative support (20.45%), food service (9.09%), and healthcare (5.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Lafayette with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.48% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lafayette in 2018 was $24,806, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,224 for a family of four. However, Lafayette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 1.4% have Swiss 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 Lafayette are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.4% 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 77.3% 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, 39.6% 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 15.9% 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. Some people also speak Polish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Lafayette, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (50.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.6%) 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 (8.7%) . 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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