Bentonville is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 253 people and just one neighborhood, Bentonville is the 761st largest community in Ohio. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Bentonville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Bentonville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Bentonville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Bentonville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is .
When you are in Bentonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.68% of Bentonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bentonville is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bentonville who work in office and administrative support (21.02%), sales jobs (17.83%), and business and financial occupations (10.19%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.19% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The overall crime rate in Bentonville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bentonville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bentonville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bentonville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bentonville, the average commute to work is 42.93 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Bentonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Bentonville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bentonville in 2022 was $36,181, 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 $144,724 for a family of four. However, Bentonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bentonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bentonville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bentonville include English, Polish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Bentonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Serbo-Croatian and Slavic languages.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 12.4% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Bentonville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.9% 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, 41.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.4%), and 17.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.3%).
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 Bentonville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (12.4%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.