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Grand Rapids - Tontogany, OH

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Overview


Grand Rapids - Tontogany is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,476 people and just one neighborhood, Grand Rapids - Tontogany is the 352nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Grand Rapids - Tontogany is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Grand Rapids - Tontogany is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Rapids - Tontogany who work in management occupations (8.15%), business and financial occupations (8.09%), and sales jobs (7.84%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In addition, Grand Rapids - Tontogany is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Grand Rapids - Tontogany is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Grand Rapids - Tontogany a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Grand Rapids - Tontogany has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Grand Rapids - Tontogany’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Grand Rapids - Tontogany 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.

Demographics

The overall education level of Grand Rapids - Tontogany is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.97% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Grand Rapids - Tontogany in 2022 was $40,012, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $160,048 for a family of four. However, Grand Rapids - Tontogany contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Grand Rapids - Tontogany is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

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 10.0% 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 French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 10.1% have French ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.9% 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 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Grand Rapids - Tontogany are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 73.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.9% 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 64.5% 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, 35.0% 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 33.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 11.8% 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 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Grand Rapids - Tontogany, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (10.1%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (10.0%), 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 (53.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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