Martinsville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 406 people and just one neighborhood, Martinsville is the 698th largest community in Ohio. Martinsville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Martinsville is a blue-collar town, with 47.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Martinsville is a village of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Martinsville who work in office and administrative support (10.00%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.00%), and maintenance occupations (6.00%).
A relatively large number of people in Martinsville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.22% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Martinsville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Martinsville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Martinsville, the average commute to work is 32.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Martinsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Martinsville, just 11.15% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Martinsville in 2022 was $27,264, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,056 for a family of four. However, Martinsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Martinsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Martinsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Martinsville include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Martinsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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 Martinsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.0% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 12.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Martinsville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.