Oakwood - Grover Hill is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,502 people and just one neighborhood, Oakwood - Grover Hill is the 348th largest community in Ohio. Oakwood - Grover Hill has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Oakwood - Grover Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.61% of the Oakwood - Grover Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Oakwood - Grover Hill is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oakwood - Grover Hill who work in management occupations (12.31%), office and administrative support (11.35%), and sales jobs (7.54%).
As is often the case in a small town, Oakwood - Grover Hill doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Oakwood - Grover Hill is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.93% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Oakwood - Grover Hill in 2022 was $36,228, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,912 for a family of four. However, Oakwood - Grover Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Oakwood - Grover Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakwood - Grover Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Oakwood - Grover Hill include German, English, Irish, Swiss, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Oakwood - Grover Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 0.9% have Belgian 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 Oakwood - Grover Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.3% 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, 34.2% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Oakwood - Grover Hill, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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.