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Wakeman - Collins, OH

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Overview


Wakeman - Collins is a somewhat small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 5,099 people and just one neighborhood, Wakeman - Collins is the 268th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Wakeman - Collins is a blue-collar town, with 41.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wakeman - Collins is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wakeman - Collins who work in office and administrative support (11.09%), healthcare (9.26%), and food service (8.05%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Wakeman - Collins doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Wakeman - Collins rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.21% of adults 25 and older in Wakeman - Collins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Wakeman - Collins in 2018 was $33,298, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,192 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Wakeman - Collins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.0% have Slovak 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 Wakeman - Collins are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.6% of America'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, 38.3% 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 sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Wakeman - Collins, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (6.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (92.4%) 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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