South Vienna is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 405 people and just one neighborhood, South Vienna is the 707th largest community in Ohio. South Vienna has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
South Vienna is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, South Vienna is a village of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Vienna who work in healthcare (14.49%), office and administrative support (8.83%), and management occupations (8.83%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.46% 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.
The overall crime rate in South Vienna is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) South Vienna has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. South Vienna has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in South Vienna than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, South Vienna may be for you.
One downside of living in South Vienna is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In South Vienna, the average commute to work is 32.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
South Vienna 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 rate of college-level education in South Vienna is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.98% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in South Vienna in 2022 was $31,751, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,004 for a family of four. However, South Vienna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Vienna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Vienna residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in South Vienna include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in South Vienna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian 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 South Vienna are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.1% 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 58.4% 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, 39.3% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 10.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.4%).
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 South Vienna, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Czechoslovakian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (39.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.