Silverton is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 4,831 people and just one neighborhood, Silverton is the 276th largest community in Ohio.
Silverton is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 86.06% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Silverton is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Silverton who work in office and administrative support (17.57%), sales jobs (7.07%), and teaching (6.91%).
Also of interest is that Silverton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Silverton is also a village of artists. Silverton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Silverton’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.96% 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.
The education level of Silverton citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.34% of adults in Silverton have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Silverton in 2022 was $40,794, which is wealthy relative to Ohio, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $163,176 for a family of four. However, Silverton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Silverton is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Silverton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Silverton residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Silverton include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Silverton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
According to NeighborhoodScout's research, is better suited for first-time home buyers than 89.9% of neighborhoods in the state. Most homes here are priced below the state's median house value, yet maintain comparably good appreciation rates over the last decade relative to other neighborhoods in Ohio. Along with an exclusive multi-metric measure of neighborhood quality developed by NeighborhoodScout that scores high here in this neighborhood, this means that buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but considered a decent first time home buyer choice for building equity in your first home, while being in a quality neighborhood
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 Silverton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.9% 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, 41.7% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 13.5% in manufacturing and laborer 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 93.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Silverton, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (57.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.4%) 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 (14.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.