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Crooksville, OH

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Overview


Crooksville is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,402 people and just one neighborhood, Crooksville is the 426th largest community in Ohio. Crooksville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Crooksville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.48% of the Crooksville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Crooksville is a village of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crooksville who work in office and administrative support (11.53%), healthcare (7.47%), and food service (6.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small village, Crooksville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Crooksville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.32% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Crooksville in 2022 was $21,998, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,992 for a family of four. However, Crooksville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Crooksville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.53% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Crooksville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crooksville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Crooksville include German, Irish, English, British, and Hungarian.

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

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

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 41.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of American neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Crooksville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 41.7% 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 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.3%).

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 Crooksville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report English roots (15.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

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 (6.2%) . 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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