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Pleasant City, OH

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Overview


Pleasant City is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 395 people and just one neighborhood, Pleasant City is the 709th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Pleasant City was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some villages, Pleasant City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pleasant City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pleasant City is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasant City who work in healthcare suport services (25.73%), sales jobs (21.82%), and food service (9.77%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Pleasant City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pleasant City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

In Pleasant City, just 6.27% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pleasant City in 2022 was $24,866, which is low income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,464 for a family of four. However, Pleasant City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Pleasant City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 97.2% 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 Pleasant City neighborhood.

Diversity

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

The Neighbors

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 Pleasant City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.4% 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, 30.4% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Pleasant City, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (53.4% 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 addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.4%) . 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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