Felicity is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 656 people and just one neighborhood, Felicity is the 638th largest community in Ohio. Felicity has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
When you are in Felicity, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 61.07% of Felicity’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Felicity is a village of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Felicity who work in healthcare (9.92%), management occupations (9.92%), and teaching (6.87%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.52% 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.
One downside of living in Felicity, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.11 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Felicity does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Felicity ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.72% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Felicity in 2022 was $19,902, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,608 for a family of four. However, Felicity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Felicity home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Felicity residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Felicity include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Felicity is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.1% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian 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 Felicity are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 37.1% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 19.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).
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 Felicity, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Brazilian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.