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Laurelville, OH

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Overview


Laurelville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 506 people and just one neighborhood, Laurelville is the 667th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Laurelville 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 Laurelville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.21% of Laurelville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Laurelville is a village of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laurelville who work in office and administrative support (14.06%), healthcare suport services (14.06%), and healthcare (5.62%).

A relatively large number of people in Laurelville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.87% 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

One downside of living in Laurelville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.97 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small village, Laurelville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Laurelville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.51% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Laurelville in 2018 was $30,192, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,768 for a family of four. However, Laurelville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Laurelville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 40 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.9% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Laurelville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.5% 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, 34.7% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 14.1% 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 99.3% of households.

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 Laurelville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (28.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (26.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.3%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (13.5%) . 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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