Homeworth is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 492 people and just one neighborhood, Homeworth is the 672nd largest community in Ohio. Homeworth has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Homeworth is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.42% of the Homeworth workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Homeworth is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Homeworth who work in food service (20.09%), management occupations (14.09%), and sales jobs (5.54%).
Overall, Homeworth’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town 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, Homeworth has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Homeworth a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Homeworth is a very car-oriented town. 97.69% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Homeworth is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Homeworth has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Homeworth does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Homeworth ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.15% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Homeworth in 2022 was $42,042, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $168,168 for a family of four. However, Homeworth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Homeworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Homeworth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Homeworth include German, English, Russian, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Homeworth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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 Homeworth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of all American neighborhoods.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.6% have Austrian ancestry.
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 Homeworth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% 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, 36.8% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Homeworth, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (5.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.5%) 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.