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Chippewa Lake, OH

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Overview


Chippewa Lake is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 658 people and just one neighborhood, Chippewa Lake is the 636th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Chippewa Lake isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chippewa Lake are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chippewa Lake is a village of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chippewa Lake who work in management occupations (11.06%), sales jobs (8.99%), and office and administrative support (8.06%).

A relatively large number of people in Chippewa Lake telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.27% 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

One downside of living in Chippewa Lake is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Chippewa Lake, the average commute to work is 31.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small village, Chippewa Lake doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Chippewa Lake overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Chippewa Lake, 22.46% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Chippewa Lake in 2018 was $39,557, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,228 for a family of four.

The people who call Chippewa Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chippewa Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Chippewa Lake include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Chippewa Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Ohio. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

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, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 2.5% have Slovak ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.6% 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 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chippewa Lake are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 58.2% 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, 32.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.6%).

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 Chippewa Lake, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report English roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (31.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (5.6%) . 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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