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Dayton, OH
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Living in Dayton



Dayton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 135,944 people and 71 associated neighborhoods, Dayton is the sixth largest community in Ohio.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Dayton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dayton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Dayton spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 0.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.

Even though Dayton is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

The population of Dayton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

Dayton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dayton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dayton residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Dayton include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

The most common language spoken in Dayton is Other Asian languages. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Russian.