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Bloomingburg, OH

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Overview


Bloomingburg is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 871 people and just one neighborhood, Bloomingburg is the 598th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Bloomingburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.45% of Bloomingburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bloomingburg is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomingburg who work in farm management occupations (12.47%), sales jobs (10.43%), and office and administrative support (9.41%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Bloomingburg work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bloomingburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bloomingburg, the average commute to work is 34.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

Bloomingburg ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.64% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Bloomingburg in 2022 was $23,699, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,796 for a family of four. However, Bloomingburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bloomingburg is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Bloomingburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bloomingburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Bloomingburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.27% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bloomingburg include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 6.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bloomingburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% 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 56.6% of America'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, 34.7% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.0%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Bloomingburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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