Martinsburg is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 224 people and just one neighborhood, Martinsburg is the 775th largest community in Ohio. Martinsburg has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Martinsburg real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Martinsburg house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Martinsburg is a blue-collar town, with 61.94% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Martinsburg is a village of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Martinsburg who work in sales jobs (10.45%), computer science and math (7.46%), and business and financial occupations (5.22%).
Also of interest is that Martinsburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.02% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Overall, Martinsburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The village 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, Martinsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Martinsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Martinsburg is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Martinsburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.42% of the adults in Martinsburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Martinsburg in 2022 was $23,881, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,524 for a family of four. However, Martinsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Martinsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Martinsburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Martinsburg include German, Irish, Italian, Swiss, and English.
The most common language spoken in Martinsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Martinsburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 11.1% 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 Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% 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 Martinsburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.9% 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, 32.8% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (7.4%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Martinsburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.