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South Bloomfield, OH

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Overview


South Bloomfield is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,427 people and just one neighborhood, South Bloomfield is the 449th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in South Bloomfield was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local South Bloomfield economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in South Bloomfield, where the median household income is $84,808.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in South Bloomfield, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.70% of South Bloomfield’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, South Bloomfield is a village of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Bloomfield who work in office and administrative support (13.26%), management occupations (12.72%), and business and financial occupations (7.97%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.87% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in South Bloomfield, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.99 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small village, South Bloomfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in South Bloomfield who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.09% of the adults in South Bloomfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in South Bloomfield in 2022 was $31,608, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $126,432 for a family of four. However, South Bloomfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in South Bloomfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 South Bloomfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.1% 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.

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 South Bloomfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.9% of U.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, 43.1% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 12.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 South Bloomfield, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report English roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (36.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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