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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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New Straitsville - Shawnee is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,599 people and just one neighborhood, New Straitsville - Shawnee is the 412th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in New Straitsville - Shawnee was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in New Straitsville - Shawnee, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.61% of New Straitsville - Shawnee’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Straitsville - Shawnee is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Straitsville - Shawnee who work in office and administrative support (12.43%), food service (6.38%), and management occupations (5.31%).
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in New Straitsville - Shawnee is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Straitsville - Shawnee, the average commute to work is 31.98 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of New Straitsville - Shawnee’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
New Straitsville - Shawnee is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The percentage of people in New Straitsville - Shawnee with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.18% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Straitsville - Shawnee in 2022 was $23,898, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,592 for a family of four. However, New Straitsville - Shawnee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Straitsville - Shawnee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Straitsville - Shawnee residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Straitsville - Shawnee include German, Irish, English, Hungarian, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in New Straitsville - Shawnee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 New Straitsville - Shawnee, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Car Ownership
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 51.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Occupations
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 46.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.0% of American neighborhoods.
Length of Commute
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.0% have Canadian ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Straitsville - Shawnee are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 46.9% 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 19.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 15.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 New Straitsville - Shawnee, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report English roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
