Miamitown is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,256 people and just one neighborhood, Miamitown is the 547th largest community in Ohio.
Miamitown real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Miamitown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Miamitown is a blue-collar town, with 52.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Miamitown is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Miamitown who work in sales jobs (22.12%), food service (8.78%), and maintenance occupations (4.75%).
Overall, Miamitown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Miamitown 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. Miamitown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Miamitown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Miamitown may be for you.
One downside of living in Miamitown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.62 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Miamitown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Miamitown overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Miamitown, 24.44% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Miamitown in 2022 was $38,980, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,920 for a family of four.
The people who call Miamitown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Miamitown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Miamitown include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Miamitown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.4% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Miamitown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.1% 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 74.5% of America'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, 42.5% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Miamitown, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (40.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.