Wakeman - Collins is a somewhat small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 5,099 people and just one neighborhood, Wakeman - Collins is the 268th largest community in Ohio.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wakeman - Collins is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.00% of the Wakeman - Collins workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wakeman - Collins is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wakeman - Collins who work in office and administrative support (11.09%), healthcare (9.26%), and food service (8.05%).
Wakeman - Collins is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Wakeman - Collins with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.21% of adults in Wakeman - Collins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wakeman - Collins in 2022 was $33,298, 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 $133,192 for a family of four.
The people who call Wakeman - Collins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wakeman - Collins residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Wakeman - Collins include German, English, Irish, European, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Wakeman - Collins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 92.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.0% have Slovak 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 Wakeman - Collins are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.5% 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 70.6% 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, 38.3% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.8%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% 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 Wakeman - Collins, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (6.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.4%) 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.