Minford is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, Minford is the 641st largest community in Ohio.
Minford is a blue-collar town, with 35.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Minford is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Minford who work in healthcare (17.00%), maintenance occupations (13.00%), and sales jobs (9.00%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.00% 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.
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!) Minford 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. Minford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Minford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Minford may be for you.
Minford is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Minford has a very low overall level of education: only 9.62% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Minford in 2022 was $28,626, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,504 for a family of four. However, Minford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Minford home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Minford residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Minford include Irish, English, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Minford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Minford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 39.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.0%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).
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 Minford, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.