Clarksville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 535 people and just one neighborhood, Clarksville is the 663rd largest community in Ohio. Clarksville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Clarksville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Clarksville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clarksville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.74% of the Clarksville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clarksville is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarksville who work in office and administrative support (17.47%), management occupations (9.61%), and sales jobs (8.73%).
Overall, Clarksville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Clarksville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.77 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small village, Clarksville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Clarksville, just 8.48% 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 Clarksville in 2022 was $26,703, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,812 for a family of four. However, Clarksville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clarksville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarksville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clarksville include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Clarksville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.7% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Clarksville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.6% of U.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, 39.7% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.9%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Clarksville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (26.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.