South Webster is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 663 people and just one neighborhood, South Webster is the 634th largest community in Ohio.
Unlike some villages, South Webster isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in South Webster are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Webster is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in South Webster who work in sales jobs (16.50%), office and administrative support (13.47%), and community and social services (10.77%).
Because of many things, South Webster is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, South Webster really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is South Webster perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in South Webster, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.20 minutes every day commuting to work.
South Webster 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.
The education level of South Webster citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.82% of adults 25 and older in South Webster have a college degree.
The per capita income in South Webster in 2018 was $30,042, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,168 for a family of four. However, South Webster contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Webster home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Webster residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Webster include German, Irish, English, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in South Webster is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in South Webster is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in OH, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.0% of the neighborhoods in Ohio. If you are considering retiring to Ohio, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 South Webster are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.6% 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, 33.6% 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 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 South Webster, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.7%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (87.7%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
