Fultonham is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 112 people and just one neighborhood, Fultonham is the 812th largest community in Ohio. Fultonham has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Fultonham is a blue-collar town, with 50.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Fultonham is a village of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fultonham who work in office and administrative support (8.70%), sales jobs (8.70%), and maintenance occupations (7.25%).
Of important note, Fultonham is also a village of artists. Fultonham has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fultonham’s character.
Fultonham is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Fultonham’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
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!) Fultonham 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. Fultonham has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fultonham than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fultonham may be for you.
One downside of living in Fultonham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fultonham, the average commute to work is 41.81 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Fultonham does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Fultonham is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fultonham in 2022 was $29,009, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,036 for a family of four. However, Fultonham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fultonham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fultonham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fultonham include Irish, German, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Fultonham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Fultonham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Fultonham neighborhood.
Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fultonham are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.8% 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, 37.2% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).
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 Fultonham, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.2%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.