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Minford, OH

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Overview


Minford is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 641 people and just one neighborhood, Minford is the 641st largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Minford is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.50% of the Minford workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Minford is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Minford who work in healthcare (17.00%), maintenance occupations (13.00%), and sales jobs (9.00%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.00% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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 town 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!) Minford 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. Minford has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Minford than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Minford may be for you.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Minford have a very low rate of college education: just 9.62% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Minford in 2018 was $28,626, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,504 for a family of four. However, Minford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Minford, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.7% 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 95.1% 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 Minford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.0%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Minford, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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