Mentor is a medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 47,044 people and 11 associated neighborhoods, Mentor is the 23rd largest community in Ohio.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mentor is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mentor is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mentor who work in office and administrative support (11.81%), management occupations (11.77%), and sales jobs (9.73%). Also of interest is that Mentor has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.83% 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. In terms of college education, Mentor is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.73% of adults in Mentor have a college degree. The per capita income in Mentor in 2022 was $42,450, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $169,800 for a family of four. However, Mentor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Mentor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mentor residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Mentor include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Mentor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
