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Owensville, OH

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Overview


Owensville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 808 people and just one neighborhood, Owensville is the 611th largest community in Ohio.

Owensville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Owensville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Owensville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.88% of Owensville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Owensville is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Owensville who work in office and administrative support (10.83%), maintenance occupations (6.86%), and management occupations (6.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Owensville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Owensville, the average commute to work is 34.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small village, Owensville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Owensville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.47% of adults in Owensville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Owensville in 2022 was $22,117, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,468 for a family of four. However, Owensville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Owensville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.41% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Owensville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Owensville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Owensville include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Owensville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Owensville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

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 Owensville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 39.1% 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 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.8%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Owensville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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