Ohioville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,295 people and just one neighborhood, Ohioville is the 455th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Ohioville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.89% of Ohioville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ohioville is a borough of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ohioville who work in management occupations (13.38%), office and administrative support (8.46%), and healthcare (6.57%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.71% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Ohioville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Ohioville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Ohioville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Ohioville’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
In Ohioville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.06 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Ohioville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Ohioville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Ohioville, 21.46% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Ohioville in 2022 was $35,258, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,032 for a family of four. However, Ohioville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ohioville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ohioville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ohioville include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Serbian.
The most common language spoken in Ohioville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 1.1% have Croatian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ohioville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.0% 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 50.7% of America'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, 38.1% 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 35.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
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 Ohioville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.