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Woodlawn, OH

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Overview


Woodlawn is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,868 people and just one neighborhood, Woodlawn is the 320th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Woodlawn isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Woodlawn are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Woodlawn is a village of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodlawn who work in office and administrative support (10.60%), teaching (9.10%), and healthcare suport services (7.46%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.04% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Woodlawn is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 35.42% of adults in Woodlawn have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Woodlawn in 2022 was $32,732, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,928 for a family of four. However, Woodlawn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Woodlawn is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Woodlawn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Woodlawn residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Woodlawn include German, Irish, English, Italian, and African.

The most common language spoken in Woodlawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 Woodlawn are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% 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, 39.3% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 17.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Woodlawn, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.7%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (3.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (48.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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