Masury is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,001 people and just one neighborhood, Masury is the 463rd largest community in Ohio. Masury has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Masury, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.37% of Masury’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Masury is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Masury who work in office and administrative support (20.11%), healthcare (14.69%), and teaching (12.09%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 19.84% 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Masury 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. Masury has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Masury than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Masury may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.33 minutes getting to work every day.
The citizens of Masury are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.89% of adults in Masury have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Masury in 2022 was $28,725, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,900 for a family of four. However, Masury contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Masury is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Masury home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Masury residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Masury include Irish, German, Hungarian, Italian, and French Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Masury is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.5% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Masury are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 39.1% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (10.3%).
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 Masury, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
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 (45.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.