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New Springfield - Petersburg, OH

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Overview


New Springfield - Petersburg is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,438 people and just one neighborhood, New Springfield - Petersburg is the 421st largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Springfield - Petersburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.24% of New Springfield - Petersburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Springfield - Petersburg is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Springfield - Petersburg who work in healthcare (10.24%), food service (9.07%), and office and administrative support (6.34%).

Also of interest is that New Springfield - Petersburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in New Springfield - Petersburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.51% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

As is often the case in a small town, New Springfield - Petersburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of New Springfield - Petersburg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.24% of adults in New Springfield - Petersburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in New Springfield - Petersburg in 2022 was $28,101, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,404 for a family of four. However, New Springfield - Petersburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Springfield - Petersburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Springfield - Petersburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Springfield - Petersburg include German, Irish, Italian, Slovak, and English.

The most common language spoken in New Springfield - Petersburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 13.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 3.0% have Croatian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 New Springfield - Petersburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 38.2% 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 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 9.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.1%).

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 New Springfield - Petersburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (13.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (54.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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