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Leesburg, OH

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Overview


Leesburg is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,270 people and just one neighborhood, Leesburg is the 542nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Leesburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.29% of Leesburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Leesburg is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Leesburg who work in management occupations (10.00%), office and administrative support (9.43%), and sales jobs (7.57%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small village, Leesburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Leesburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.28% of adults in Leesburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Leesburg in 2018 was $34,392, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,568 for a family of four. However, Leesburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Leesburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Significantly, 3.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% 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 Leesburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.6% 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, 40.2% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.4%), and 8.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Leesburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.4%) 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.


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