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Gratis, OH

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Overview


Gratis is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 831 people and just one neighborhood, Gratis is the 602nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gratis is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.47% of the Gratis workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gratis is a village of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gratis who work in sales jobs (16.24%), management occupations (8.47%), and architecture and engineering (7.76%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.61% 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

Because of many things, Gratis is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Gratis a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The village’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Gratis has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Gratis’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Gratis, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.52 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Gratis who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.82% of the adults in Gratis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gratis in 2022 was $31,610, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $126,440 for a family of four. However, Gratis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gratis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gratis residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Gratis include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Some neighborhoods are made up of apartments. Some consist of row houses, and most - by far - consist of a mixture of housing types. But the neighborhood stands out due to the total dominance of detached, single-family homes here. There are nearly no other types of residential real estate in the neighborhood. In fact, this neighborhood has a higher proportion of single-family homes in its real estate stock than 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.2% of the neighborhoods in OH. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Gratis are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.5% 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, 37.6% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

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 Gratis, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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