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Mowrystown, OH

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Overview


Mowrystown is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 385 people and just one neighborhood, Mowrystown is the 716th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Mowrystown was built prior to World War II, 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, Mowrystown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.17% of the Mowrystown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mowrystown is a village of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mowrystown who work in food service (14.22%), sales jobs (10.09%), and community and social services (6.42%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Mowrystown is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Mowrystown’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Mowrystown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.44 minutes every day commuting to work.

Mowrystown 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 Mowrystown has a very low overall level of education: only 8.59% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Mowrystown in 2018 was $20,874, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,496 for a family of four. However, Mowrystown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mowrystown also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.92% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Mowrystown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mowrystown residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mowrystown include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Mowrystown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 38.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

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.

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 Mowrystown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% 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, 34.6% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 17.7% 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 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.0%).

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 Mowrystown, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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