La Rue is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 673 people and just one neighborhood, La Rue is the 630th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in La Rue was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, La Rue isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Rue are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Rue is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Rue who work in sales jobs (11.70%), management occupations (9.65%), and food service (9.06%).
Also of interest is that La Rue has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.89% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
One downside of living in La Rue is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In La Rue, the average commute to work is 30.73 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
La Rue is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of La Rue has a very low overall level of education: only 7.41% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in La Rue in 2022 was $31,156, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,624 for a family of four. However, La Rue contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call La Rue home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Rue residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in La Rue include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in La Rue is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 La Rue are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 25.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% 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, 35.0% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.4%), and 18.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in La Rue, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.2%) 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.