Felicity is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 656 people and just one neighborhood, Felicity is the 638th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Felicity was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
When you are in Felicity, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 61.07% of Felicity’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Felicity is a village of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Felicity who work in healthcare (9.92%), management occupations (9.92%), and teaching (6.87%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.52% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
In Felicity, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.11 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Felicity is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Felicity ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.72% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Felicity in 2022 was $19,902, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,608 for a family of four. However, Felicity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Felicity home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Felicity residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Felicity include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Felicity is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.9% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian 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 Felicity are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.7% 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, 37.1% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 19.4% 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 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).
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 Felicity, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Brazilian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.