Green Springs is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,222 people and just one neighborhood, Green Springs is the 552nd largest community in Ohio. Green Springs 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 Green Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.64% of Green Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Green Springs is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Green Springs who work in healthcare suport services (13.99%), maintenance occupations (10.24%), and management occupations (8.19%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.25% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
The overall crime rate in Green Springs is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Green Springs has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Green Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Green Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Green Springs may be for you.
Green Springs is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Green Springs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.91% of adults in Green Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Green Springs in 2022 was $28,202, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,808 for a family of four. However, Green Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Green Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Green Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Green Springs include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Green Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Green Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.1% 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, 29.7% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.9%), and 20.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 97.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Green Springs, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.