Clarksville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 535 people and just one neighborhood, Clarksville is the 663rd largest community in Ohio.
Unlike some villages, Clarksville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Clarksville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clarksville is a village of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Clarksville who work in office and administrative support (20.00%), management occupations (12.50%), and business and financial occupations (8.33%).
Clarksville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Clarksville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.18 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small village, Clarksville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Clarksville, just 11.24% 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 Clarksville in 2022 was $27,803, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,212 for a family of four. However, Clarksville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clarksville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarksville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clarksville include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Belgian.
The most common language spoken in Clarksville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Italian.
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 Clarksville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Clarksville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% 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, 35.7% 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 35.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.
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 Clarksville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.9%), along with some Dutch 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 (25.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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.