Ontario is a somewhat small city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 6,669 people and just one neighborhood, Ontario is the 227th largest community in Ohio.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ontario is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ontario is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ontario who work in office and administrative support (15.56%), management occupations (12.86%), and sales jobs (9.46%).
Of important note, Ontario is also a city of artists. Ontario has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ontario’s character.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Ontario 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. Ontario has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ontario than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ontario may be for you.
Being a small city, Ontario does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Ontario citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.89% of adults in Ontario have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Ontario in 2022 was $34,613, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $138,452 for a family of four. However, Ontario contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ontario home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ontario residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ontario include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Ontario is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Langs. of India.
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.
Our research reveals that 92.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Ontario are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.3% 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 67.1% 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, 37.6% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.6%).
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 Ontario, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (92.0%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.