Paulding is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,531 people and just one neighborhood, Paulding is the 343rd largest community in Ohio.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Paulding is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.27% of the Paulding workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Paulding is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paulding who work in office and administrative support (11.62%), management occupations (10.76%), and healthcare (9.72%).
Also of interest is that Paulding has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Paulding has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Paulding a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small village, Paulding doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Paulding is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.08% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Paulding in 2022 was $29,771, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $119,084 for a family of four. However, Paulding contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Paulding is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Paulding home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paulding residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Paulding also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.59% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Paulding include German, Irish, French, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Paulding is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Paulding, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Paulding are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.1% of U.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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).
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 Paulding, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.