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Lakemore, OH

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Overview


Lakemore is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,900 people and just one neighborhood, Lakemore is the 391st largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Lakemore was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Lakemore economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Lakemore, where the median household income is $53,414.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Lakemore isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lakemore are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lakemore is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lakemore who work in sales jobs (19.76%), office and administrative support (17.41%), and healthcare suport services (9.92%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.68% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Lakemore has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Lakemore has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lakemore than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lakemore may be for you.

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

Demographics

In Lakemore, just 6.53% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lakemore in 2018 was $29,903, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,612 for a family of four. However, Lakemore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lakemore is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Lakemore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lakemore residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lakemore include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Lakemore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 3.3% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.7% 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 Lakemore are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 27.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.2%), and 22.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.3%).

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 Lakemore, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (52.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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