It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Orient 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. Orient has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Orient than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Orient may be for you.
Being a small town, Orient does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Orient with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.95% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Orient in 2022 was $34,774, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,096 for a family of four. However, Orient contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Orient home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Orient residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Orient include German, Irish, Scottish, Swedish, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Orient is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
