Tuscarawas is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,021 people and just one neighborhood, Tuscarawas is the 575th largest community in Ohio.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tuscarawas is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.62% of the Tuscarawas workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tuscarawas is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuscarawas who work in healthcare (11.42%), sales jobs (10.81%), and maintenance occupations (8.68%).
Overall, Tuscarawas’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small village, Tuscarawas does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Tuscarawas with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.58% of adults in Tuscarawas have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tuscarawas in 2022 was $26,506, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,024 for a family of four. However, Tuscarawas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tuscarawas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuscarawas residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Tuscarawas include German, Italian, Scottish, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Tuscarawas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 91.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 1.6% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% 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 Tuscarawas are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.3% 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, 45.4% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Tuscarawas, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (49.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.4%) 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.