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Ashley, OH

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Overview


Ashley is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,281 people and just one neighborhood, Ashley is the 557th largest community in Ohio.

Ashley real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Ashley house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Ashley is a blue-collar town, with 41.03% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ashley is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ashley who work in office and administrative support (14.84%), sales jobs (9.99%), and food service (5.40%).

Also of interest is that Ashley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small village, Ashley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Ashley has a very low overall level of education: only 9.02% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Ashley in 2022 was $27,357, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,428 for a family of four. However, Ashley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ashley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ashley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ashley include German, Irish, English, French, and European.

The most common language spoken in Ashley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 1.2% have Slovak 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 Ashley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.1% 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, 29.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).

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 Ashley, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (39.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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