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Mingo Junction, OH

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Overview


Mingo Junction is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,282 people and just one neighborhood, Mingo Junction is the 362nd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Mingo Junction is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mingo Junction is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mingo Junction who work in office and administrative support (22.76%), sales jobs (16.10%), and food service (6.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The village 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, Mingo Junction has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mingo Junction a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Mingo Junction 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

In terms of college education, the citizens of Mingo Junction rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.88% of adults 25 and older in Mingo Junction have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Mingo Junction in 2018 was $29,148, which is middle income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,592 for a family of four. However, Mingo Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (66.4%) than found in 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.3% have Eastern European ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 20.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Mingo Junction are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 66.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.0% 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, 31.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (27.3%), and 11.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

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 Italian and Polish.

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 Mingo Junction, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (9.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.8%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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