Rio Grande is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 723 people and just one neighborhood, Rio Grande is the 620th largest community in Ohio.
Unlike some villages where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rio Grande is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rio Grande is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rio Grande who work in office and administrative support (21.52%), management occupations (13.61%), and food service (8.86%).
Also of interest is that Rio Grande has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Rio Grande’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Rio Grande spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.68 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small village, Rio Grande does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Rio Grande who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.62% of the adults in Rio Grande have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rio Grande in 2022 was $17,036, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,144 for a family of four. However, Rio Grande contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rio Grande also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Rio Grande is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Rio Grande home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rio Grande residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rio Grande include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Rio Grande is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Portuguese.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 0.9% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% 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 99.4% 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 Rio Grande are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.6% 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, 33.8% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.9%).
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 Rio Grande, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (15.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (7.9%) and 5.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.