Mechanicsburg is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,670 people and just one neighborhood, Mechanicsburg is the 489th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Mechanicsburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Mechanicsburg is a blue-collar town, with 37.80% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mechanicsburg is a village of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mechanicsburg who work in office and administrative support (17.65%), business and financial occupations (9.60%), and healthcare (6.52%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.09% 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 Mechanicsburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.20 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small village, Mechanicsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Mechanicsburg rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.95% of adults 25 and older in Mechanicsburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Mechanicsburg in 2022 was $26,060, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,240 for a family of four. However, Mechanicsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mechanicsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mechanicsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mechanicsburg include German, Irish, English, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Mechanicsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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Of particular note, 3.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 Mechanicsburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 63.4% of America'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, 34.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.1%), and 13.8% 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 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.6%).
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 Mechanicsburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (38.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.4%) 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 (18.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.