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Lynchburg, OH

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Overview


Lynchburg is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,533 people and just one neighborhood, Lynchburg is the 510th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Lynchburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.64% of Lynchburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lynchburg is a village of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lynchburg who work in office and administrative support (7.38%), food service (6.04%), and healthcare (6.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Lynchburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.08 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lynchburg ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.63% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lynchburg in 2022 was $29,493, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,972 for a family of four. However, Lynchburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lynchburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lynchburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lynchburg include German, Irish, Italian, English, and French.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of American neighborhoods.

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 Lynchburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.1% of America'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, 44.7% 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 19.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Lynchburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.1%) 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 (5.2%) . 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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