Morral is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 371 people and just one neighborhood, Morral is the 719th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Morral was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Unlike some villages, Morral isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Morral are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morral is a village of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morral who work in sales jobs (15.87%), healthcare (14.29%), and office and administrative support (11.64%).
Because of many things, Morral 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, Morral really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Morral 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.
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!) Morral 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. Morral has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Morral than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Morral may be for you.
Being a small village, Morral does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Morral citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.66% of adults in Morral have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Morral in 2022 was $37,099, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $148,396 for a family of four. However, Morral contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Morral home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morral residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Morral include German, English, Irish, European, and French.
The most common language spoken in Morral 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.
Of particular note, 3.5% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Our research reveals that 88.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 1.1% have Romanian ancestry.
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 Morral are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.3% of America'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, 31.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer 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 (26.7%), and 11.7% 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 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Morral, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others.
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 (55.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.5%) 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.