New Lebanon is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,780 people and just one neighborhood, New Lebanon is the 329th largest community in Ohio.
New Lebanon is a blue-collar town, with 39.41% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Lebanon is a village of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Lebanon who work in management occupations (9.68%), healthcare (8.31%), and healthcare suport services (7.43%).
Also of interest is that New Lebanon 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: 9.31% 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.
One downside of living in New Lebanon is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Lebanon, the average commute to work is 30.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, New Lebanon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, New Lebanon ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Lebanon in 2022 was $23,833, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,332 for a family of four. However, New Lebanon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. New Lebanon also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call New Lebanon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Lebanon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Lebanon include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in New Lebanon 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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 2.6% have Welsh ancestry.
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 New Lebanon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.3% 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, 31.6% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.0%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in New Lebanon, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Eastern European ancestry (3.7%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (46.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.