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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. Lafayette has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lafayette is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.94% of the Lafayette workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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 (24.19%), food service (9.14%), and healthcare suport services (5.91%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Lafayette 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

The population of Lafayette has a very low overall level of education: only 7.41% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lafayette in 2018 was $28,296, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,184 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, African, Scottish, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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, 37.4% 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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.5% of America'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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.9%), and 18.2% 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 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Lafayette, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.8%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (50.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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