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Dunkirk, OH

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Overview


Dunkirk is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 757 people and just one neighborhood, Dunkirk is the 613th largest community in Ohio. Dunkirk has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Dunkirk is a blue-collar town, with 48.46% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dunkirk is a village of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dunkirk who work in office and administrative support (9.74%), healthcare (6.92%), and maintenance occupations (6.41%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Dunkirk’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

As is often the case in a small village, Dunkirk doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

Dunkirk ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.42% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Dunkirk in 2022 was $25,732, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,928 for a family of four. However, Dunkirk contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Dunkirk home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dunkirk residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dunkirk include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Dunkirk is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.9% of the neighborhoods in OH. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students. In addition to being an excellent choice for college students, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.

The Neighbors

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 Dunkirk are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.0% 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, 38.2% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Dunkirk, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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