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Owensville, OH

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Overview


Owensville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 808 people and just one neighborhood, Owensville is the 611th largest community in Ohio.

Owensville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Owensville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Owensville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.88% of the Owensville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Owensville is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Owensville who work in office and administrative support (10.83%), maintenance occupations (6.86%), and management occupations (6.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Owensville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Owensville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.47% of adults in Owensville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Owensville in 2018 was $22,117, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,468 for a family of four. However, Owensville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Owensville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.41% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

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 Owensville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% 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, 39.1% 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 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.8%), and 12.5% 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 99.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Owensville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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