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St. Paris, OH

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Overview


St. Paris is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,874 people and just one neighborhood, St. Paris is the 472nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in St. Paris, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.55% of St. Paris’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, St. Paris is a village of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Paris who work in office and administrative support (9.83%), teaching (6.72%), and community and social services (6.33%).

Setting & Lifestyle

St. Paris 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 citizens of St. Paris are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.44% of adults in St. Paris have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in St. Paris in 2018 was $24,378, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,512 for a family of four. However, St. Paris contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call St. Paris home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Paris residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. St. Paris also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.42% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in St. Paris include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in St. Paris 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 St. Paris, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of American neighborhoods.

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 St. Paris are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.2% 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, 42.0% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in St. Paris, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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