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Oakwood - Grover Hill, OH

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Overview


Oakwood - Grover Hill is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,502 people and just one neighborhood, Oakwood - Grover Hill is the 348th largest community in Ohio. Oakwood - Grover Hill has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Oakwood - Grover Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.61% of Oakwood - Grover Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Oakwood - Grover Hill is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakwood - Grover Hill who work in management occupations (12.31%), office and administrative support (11.35%), and sales jobs (7.54%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Oakwood - Grover Hill 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 percentage of people in Oakwood - Grover Hill with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.93% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Oakwood - Grover Hill in 2018 was $36,228, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,912 for a family of four. However, Oakwood - Grover Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Oakwood - Grover Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakwood - Grover Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Oakwood - Grover Hill include German, English, Irish, Swiss, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Oakwood - Grover Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Oakwood - Grover Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 0.9% have Belgian ancestry.

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 Oakwood - Grover Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.3% 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, 34.2% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.

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 Oakwood - Grover Hill, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (35.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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