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Fultonham, OH

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Overview


Fultonham is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 112 people and just one neighborhood, Fultonham is the 812th largest community in Ohio. Fultonham has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fultonham is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 56.96% of the Fultonham workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fultonham is a village of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fultonham who work in sales jobs (8.86%), art, media, and design (7.59%), and maintenance occupations (6.33%).

Of important note, Fultonham is also a village of artists. Fultonham has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fultonham’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Fultonham’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fultonham has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fultonham has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fultonham than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fultonham may be for you.

One downside of living in Fultonham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fultonham, the average commute to work is 43.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small village, Fultonham doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Fultonham rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.64% of adults 25 and older in Fultonham 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 Fultonham in 2018 was $25,123, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,492 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Fultonham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all American neighborhoods.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Fultonham neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.1% have Lebanese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% 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 Fultonham are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.2% 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 74.7% 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, 35.1% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.4%).

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 Fultonham, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (49.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (95.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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