Stratton is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 260 people and just one neighborhood, Stratton is the 753rd largest community in Ohio.
Stratton is a blue-collar town, with 36.73% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Stratton is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stratton who work in healthcare suport services (10.20%), office and administrative support (8.84%), and food service (8.16%).
Overall, Stratton’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 village 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!) Stratton 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. Stratton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stratton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stratton may be for you.
Being a small village, Stratton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Stratton, just 11.86% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Stratton in 2022 was $34,818, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,272 for a family of four. However, Stratton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Stratton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stratton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stratton include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Stratton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.8% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.3% 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 Stratton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.0% 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, 29.3% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.6%), and 19.2% 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 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Stratton, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.1%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 (54.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (94.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.