Minford is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, Minford is the 641st largest community in Ohio.
When you are in Minford, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.50% of Minford’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Minford is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Minford who work in healthcare (17.00%), maintenance occupations (13.00%), and sales jobs (9.00%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.00% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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, Minford has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Minford a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Minford does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Minford has a very low overall level of education: only 9.62% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Minford in 2022 was $28,626, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,504 for a family of four. However, Minford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Minford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Minford residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Minford include Irish, English, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Minford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Minford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.5% 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, 39.2% 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.0%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).
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 Minford, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.