Bloomdale - Cygnet is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,786 people and just one neighborhood, Bloomdale - Cygnet is the 331st largest community in Ohio. Bloomdale - Cygnet has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Bloomdale - Cygnet is a blue-collar town, with 44.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bloomdale - Cygnet is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomdale - Cygnet who work in office and administrative support (12.51%), management occupations (7.16%), and healthcare (6.37%).
Because of many things, Bloomdale - Cygnet is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Bloomdale - Cygnet a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Bloomdale - Cygnet has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Bloomdale - Cygnet’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
As is often the case in a small town, Bloomdale - Cygnet doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Bloomdale - Cygnet rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.55% of adults 25 and older in Bloomdale - Cygnet have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Bloomdale - Cygnet in 2022 was $28,831, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,324 for a family of four. However, Bloomdale - Cygnet contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bloomdale - Cygnet is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bloomdale - Cygnet home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bloomdale - Cygnet residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Bloomdale - Cygnet include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Bloomdale - Cygnet is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Bloomdale - Cygnet, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of all American neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Ohio. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 38.3% have German ancestry.
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 Bloomdale - Cygnet are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.0% of U.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, 44.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.7%), and 14.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.4%).
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 Bloomdale - Cygnet, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.8%), 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 (53.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.6%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.