Prospect is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,056 people and just one neighborhood, Prospect is the 573rd largest community in Ohio. Prospect has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
When you are in Prospect, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.24% of Prospect’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Prospect is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Prospect who work in food service (11.81%), office and administrative support (8.30%), and teaching (7.38%).
One downside of living in Prospect is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Prospect, the average commute to work is 31.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Prospect does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Prospect are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.22% of adults in Prospect have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Prospect in 2022 was $26,137, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,548 for a family of four. However, Prospect contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Prospect home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prospect residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Prospect include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Prospect is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Prospect, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 4.9% have Scottish ancestry.
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 Prospect are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.6% 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 69.3% 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, 37.8% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 94.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Prospect, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (10.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.