Caledonia is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 558 people and just one neighborhood, Caledonia is the 656th largest community in Ohio. Caledonia has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Caledonia is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.93% of the Caledonia workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Caledonia is a village of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Caledonia who work in office and administrative support (15.52%), sales jobs (6.32%), and management occupations (6.32%).
One downside of living in Caledonia is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Caledonia, the average commute to work is 30.67 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Caledonia doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Caledonia, just 12.55% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Caledonia in 2022 was $25,404, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,616 for a family of four. However, Caledonia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Caledonia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Caledonia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Caledonia include German, English, Irish, European, and Ukrainian.
The most common language spoken in Caledonia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Caledonia are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.5% 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, 38.1% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.7%), and 14.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
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 Caledonia, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (2.5%), along with some Scottish 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.