Moscow is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 159 people and just one neighborhood, Moscow is the 795th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Moscow was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Moscow is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 69.77% of the Moscow workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Moscow is a village of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Moscow who work in office and administrative support (16.28%), business and financial occupations (13.95%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
A relatively large number of people in Moscow telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 40.74% 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.
Moscow’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Moscow, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 45.94 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Moscow does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Moscow, just 9.01% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Moscow in 2022 was $32,066, which is middle income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,264 for a family of four. However, Moscow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Moscow also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.01% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Moscow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Moscow residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Moscow include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and European.
The most common language spoken in Moscow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Moscow, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 91.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Moscow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 58.4% of America'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, 34.3% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).
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 Moscow, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (51.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (91.5%) 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.