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Friendship is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 343 people and just one neighborhood, Friendship is the 726th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Friendship was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Friendship economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Friendship, where the median household income is .
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Friendship is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Friendship is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Friendship who work in office and administrative support (23.94%), healthcare (18.09%), and healthcare suport services (17.02%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Friendship’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Friendship has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Friendship has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Friendship than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Friendship may be for you.
One downside of living in Friendship, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.36 minutes every day commuting to work.
Friendship is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Friendship is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Friendship has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Friendship is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Friendship with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.84% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Friendship in 2022 was $17,714, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,856 for a family of four. However, Friendship contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Friendship also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Friendship home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Friendship residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Friendship include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Friendship is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research reveals that 92.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.
The Neighbors
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 Friendship are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% 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, 37.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 19.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Friendship, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (36.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.7%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
