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Leavittsburg, OH

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Overview


Leavittsburg is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,571 people and just one neighborhood, Leavittsburg is the 502nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Leavittsburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Leavittsburg is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Leavittsburg who work in office and administrative support (28.38%), sales jobs (8.41%), and maintenance occupations (8.02%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Leavittsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Leavittsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Leavittsburg is a small town, 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 Leavittsburg has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.67% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Leavittsburg in 2018 was $27,157, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,628 for a family of four. However, Leavittsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.5% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of America's neighborhoods.

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 Leavittsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.7% of U.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, 32.6% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 22.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.1%).

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 Leavittsburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (34.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.0%) 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 (10.3%) . 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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