Morral is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 371 people and just one neighborhood, Morral is the 719th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Morral was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Morral isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Morral are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morral is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morral who work in sales jobs (15.87%), healthcare (14.29%), and office and administrative support (11.64%).
Because of many things, Morral is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Morral really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Morral perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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!) Morral 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. Morral has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Morral than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Morral may be for you.
Being a small village, Morral does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Morral citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.66% of adults in Morral have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Morral in 2022 was $37,099, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $148,396 for a family of four. However, Morral contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Morral home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morral residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Morral include German, English, Irish, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Morral is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Morral, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 3.5% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Our research reveals that 88.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.1% have Romanian 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 Morral are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.3% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 31.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.7%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Morral, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (55.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.5%) 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.