Neffs is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 878 people and just one neighborhood, Neffs is the 598th largest community in Ohio. Neffs has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Neffs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.37% of Neffs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Neffs is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Neffs who work in office and administrative support (14.23%), sales jobs (11.38%), and food service (6.30%).
Also of interest is that Neffs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Neffs’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Neffs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Neffs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Neffs is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Neffs isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Neffs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Neffs ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.21% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Neffs in 2022 was $25,031, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,124 for a family of four. However, Neffs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Neffs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Neffs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Neffs include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Neffs 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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.6% have Ukrainian 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 Neffs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 18.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Neffs, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (53.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.6%) 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.