Senecaville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 414 people and just one neighborhood, Senecaville is the 696th largest community in Ohio. Senecaville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Senecaville is a blue-collar town, with 41.88% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Senecaville is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Senecaville who work in office and administrative support (9.38%), healthcare suport services (8.13%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (6.88%).
The overall crime rate in Senecaville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Senecaville 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. Senecaville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Senecaville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Senecaville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small village, Senecaville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Senecaville, just 8.71% 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 Senecaville in 2022 was $27,757, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,028 for a family of four. However, Senecaville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Senecaville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Senecaville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Senecaville include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Senecaville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% 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 Senecaville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.1% 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 51.6% 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, 36.1% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (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 Senecaville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (43.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.