Frazeysburg is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,347 people and just one neighborhood, Frazeysburg is the 532nd largest community in Ohio.
Frazeysburg is a blue-collar town, with 47.95% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Frazeysburg is a village of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Frazeysburg who work in office and administrative support (16.27%), food service (7.71%), and maintenance occupations (5.31%).
The village is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Frazeysburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Frazeysburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Frazeysburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Frazeysburg have a very low rate of college education: just 8.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Frazeysburg in 2022 was $27,594, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,376 for a family of four. However, Frazeysburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Frazeysburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Frazeysburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Frazeysburg include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Frazeysburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Frazeysburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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 Frazeysburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.8% 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, 45.5% 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 29.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.7%), and 11.2% 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 100.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Frazeysburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.