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Marengo, OH

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Overview


Marengo is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 280 people and just one neighborhood, Marengo is the 746th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Marengo was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Marengo real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Marengo house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Marengo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.79% of Marengo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Marengo is a village of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Marengo who work in healthcare (10.30%), healthcare suport services (9.09%), and sales jobs (6.67%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.52% 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

In Marengo, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.85 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Marengo 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.

Demographics

The population of Marengo has a very low overall level of education: only 9.47% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Marengo in 2018 was $33,372, 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 $133,488 for a family of four. However, Marengo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Marengo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marengo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marengo include German, Polish, Italian, English, and Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.

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 Marengo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.3% 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 74.1% of America'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, 39.4% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.1%), and 14.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 99.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Marengo, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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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