Morral is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 371 people and just one neighborhood, Morral is the 719th largest community in Ohio. Morral has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Morral is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.34% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Morral is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morral who work in office and administrative support (17.56%), healthcare (14.63%), and sales jobs (13.17%).
Because of many things, Morral 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, Morral really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Morral 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 village 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!) Morral 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. Morral has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Morral than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Morral may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Morral doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Morral who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.05% of adults in Morral have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Morral in 2022 was $31,062, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,248 for a family of four. However, Morral contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Morral home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morral residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Morral include German, Irish, English, Hungarian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Morral 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.
Of particular note, 3.5% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, the neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.2%) than found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 1.1% have Romanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Morral are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% 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, 28.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.3%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Morral, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Brazilian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (54.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.