Buckeye Lake is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,551 people and just one neighborhood, Buckeye Lake is the 418th largest community in Ohio.
Buckeye Lake is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buckeye Lake is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buckeye Lake who work in sales jobs (29.82%), office and administrative support (16.75%), and healthcare (4.81%).
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Buckeye Lake is worth considering.
Being a small village, Buckeye Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Buckeye Lake with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Buckeye Lake in 2022 was $36,810, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,240 for a family of four. However, Buckeye Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Buckeye Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buckeye Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Buckeye Lake include German, English, Irish, European, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Buckeye Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Buckeye Lake, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With more than 1.6% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 95.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 4.0% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Buckeye Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 12.8% in executive, management, and professional 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 97.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Buckeye Lake, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.0%), along with some Greek ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.5%) 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.