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.
Laurelville is a blue-collar town, with 43.37% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Laurelville is a village of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laurelville who work in office and administrative support (18.07%), healthcare suport services (10.24%), and healthcare (8.43%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.20% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Laurelville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Laurelville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Laurelville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Laurelville may be for you.
One downside of living in Laurelville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.10 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.
Laurelville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.04% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Laurelville in 2018 was $22,964, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,856 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, followed by Native American. 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.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods. 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.
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.
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 low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% 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, 32.9% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 15.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
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 Laurelville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (28.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (22.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 (40.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.