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Pleasantville, OH

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Overview


Pleasantville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 942 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasantville is the 590th largest community in Ohio. Pleasantville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Pleasantville real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Pleasantville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Pleasantville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.30% of Pleasantville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pleasantville is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasantville who work in food service (12.08%), office and administrative support (8.46%), and business and financial occupations (6.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Pleasantville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pleasantville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Pleasantville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pleasantville, the average commute to work is 32.92 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small village, Pleasantville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Pleasantville, just 7.58% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pleasantville in 2018 was $23,680, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,720 for a family of four. However, Pleasantville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasantville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Pleasantville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 10.8% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Ohio.

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 Pleasantville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 80.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.2% 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 78.3% of America'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, 53.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.0%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 98.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasantville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report English roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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.


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