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Lockbourne, OH

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Overview


Lockbourne is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 231 people and just one neighborhood, Lockbourne is the 768th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Lockbourne was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Lockbourne is a blue-collar town, with 35.82% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lockbourne is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lockbourne who work in office and administrative support (11.94%), management occupations (10.45%), and food service (8.96%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Lockbourne 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. Lockbourne has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lockbourne than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lockbourne may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Lockbourne has a very low overall level of education: only 8.80% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lockbourne in 2018 was $20,581, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,324 for a family of four.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Lockbourne are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.0% 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, 32.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.5%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.2%).

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 Lockbourne, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (5.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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