Bridgeport - Lansing is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,461 people and just one neighborhood, Bridgeport - Lansing is the 346th largest community in Ohio.
Bridgeport - Lansing is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bridgeport - Lansing is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bridgeport - Lansing who work in office and administrative support (12.09%), sales jobs (11.73%), and healthcare suport services (11.08%).
Also of interest is that Bridgeport - Lansing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Bridgeport - Lansing rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.54% of adults 25 and older in Bridgeport - Lansing 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 Bridgeport - Lansing in 2022 was $28,932, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,728 for a family of four. However, Bridgeport - Lansing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bridgeport - Lansing is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bridgeport - Lansing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bridgeport - Lansing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bridgeport - Lansing include Irish, German, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bridgeport - Lansing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Bridgeport - Lansing, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bridgeport - Lansing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.1% 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, 26.3% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 23.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Bridgeport - Lansing, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.