Owensville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 808 people and just one neighborhood, Owensville is the 611th largest community in Ohio.
Owensville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Owensville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Owensville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.88% of the Owensville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Owensville is a village of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Owensville who work in office and administrative support (10.83%), maintenance occupations (6.86%), and management occupations (6.14%).
One downside of living in Owensville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Owensville, the average commute to work is 34.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Owensville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Owensville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.47% of adults 25 and older in Owensville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Owensville in 2022 was $22,117, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,468 for a family of four. However, Owensville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Owensville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.41% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Owensville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Owensville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Owensville include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Owensville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Owensville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Owensville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% of U.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, 39.1% 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 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.8%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
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 Owensville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 (45.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.