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.
Unlike some towns, Lake Milton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Milton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Milton is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Milton who work in management occupations (21.43%), office and administrative support (11.76%), and healthcare (9.66%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.66% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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 vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
Because of many things, Lake Milton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Lake Milton a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Lake Milton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Lake Milton’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lake Milton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lake Milton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lake Milton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.01 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lake Milton 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.
The education level of Lake Milton citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.46% of adults in Lake Milton have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lake Milton in 2022 was $43,189, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,756 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 German, Italian, Irish, English, and Romanian.
The most common language spoken in Lake Milton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Lake Milton is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in OH, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.9% of the neighborhoods in Ohio. If you are considering retiring to Ohio, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.7% have Finnish 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 Lake Milton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.8% 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, 38.3% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.4%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% 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 Lake Milton, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.4%) and 5.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.