Lake Milton is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 637 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Milton is the 642nd largest community in Ohio.
When you are in Lake Milton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.19% of Lake Milton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lake Milton is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Milton who work in management occupations (22.11%), sales jobs (14.39%), and office and administrative support (8.07%).
A relatively large number of people in Lake Milton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 20.70% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Another notable thing is that Lake Milton is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.
Because of many things, Lake Milton is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Lake Milton really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Lake Milton perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly 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!) Lake Milton 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. Lake Milton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Milton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Milton may be for you.
In Lake Milton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Lake Milton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The overall education level of Lake Milton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.92% of adults in Lake Milton have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lake Milton in 2022 was $46,093, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $184,372 for a family of four. However, Lake Milton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lake Milton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Milton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lake Milton include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lake Milton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.6% have Finnish 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 Lake Milton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 40.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Lake Milton, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (8.5%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.