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Senecaville, OH

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Overview


Senecaville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 415 people and just one neighborhood, Senecaville is the 696th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Senecaville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Senecaville is a blue-collar town, with 44.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Senecaville is a village of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Senecaville who work in office and administrative support (15.53%), food service (6.80%), and teaching (5.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Senecaville is very much a car-oriented village. This is because the population of Senecaville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.57% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Demographics

The population of Senecaville has a very low overall level of education: only 6.55% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Senecaville in 2022 was $27,244, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,976 for a family of four. However, Senecaville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 30.9%, which is higher than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.9% have Lebanese ancestry.

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 Senecaville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.3% 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, 33.9% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% 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 Senecaville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report English roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.0%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (41.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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