South Webster is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 656 people and just one neighborhood, South Webster is the 634th largest community in Ohio.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, South Webster is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Webster is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in South Webster who work in sales jobs (16.90%), office and administrative support (15.07%), and community and social services (13.70%).
The village 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, South Webster has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes South Webster a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, South Webster does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, South Webster is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.35% of adults 25 and older in South Webster have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in South Webster in 2022 was $31,143, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,572 for a family of four. However, South Webster contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Webster home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Webster residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Webster include Irish, German, English, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in South Webster is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 South Webster, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 South Webster are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.7%), and 10.0% 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 South Webster, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report German roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.