Amanda is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 672 people and just one neighborhood, Amanda is the 631st largest community in Ohio. Amanda has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Amanda real estate is some of the most expensive in Ohio, although Amanda house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Amanda is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.66% of the Amanda workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Amanda is a village of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Amanda who work in teaching (13.71%), management occupations (9.68%), and business and financial occupations (5.91%).
Also of interest is that Amanda has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Amanda telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.48% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Amanda is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Amanda, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small village, Amanda does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Amanda rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.17% of adults 25 and older in Amanda 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 Amanda in 2022 was $25,446, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,784 for a family of four. However, Amanda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Amanda is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Amanda home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Amanda residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Amanda include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Amanda is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.3% have British ancestry.
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 Amanda are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.2% 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, 31.6% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.1%).
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 Amanda, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (2.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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.