La Rue is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 673 people and just one neighborhood, La Rue is the 630th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in La Rue was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
La Rue is a blue-collar town, with 41.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, La Rue is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Rue who work in sales jobs (10.30%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.30%), and food service (7.31%).
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, La Rue has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes La Rue a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in La Rue, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.91 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small village, La Rue doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of La Rue has a very low overall level of education: only 7.60% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in La Rue in 2022 was $29,491, which is middle income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,964 for a family of four. However, La Rue contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Rue home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Rue residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in La Rue include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in La Rue is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 42 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 2.4% have British 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 La Rue are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.3% 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, 36.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.1%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 La Rue, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scots-Irish 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (5.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.