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Bowersville, OH

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Overview


Bowersville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 257 people and just one neighborhood, Bowersville is the 756th largest community in Ohio. Much of the housing stock in Bowersville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Bowersville is a blue-collar town, with 46.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bowersville is a village of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowersville who work in food service (9.63%), community and social services (8.15%), and personal care services (7.41%).

Also of interest is that Bowersville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bowersville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.10 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Bowersville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.28% of adults 25 and older in Bowersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bowersville in 2022 was $25,522, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,088 for a family of four. However, Bowersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 75.8% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.7% of all U.S. 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 Bowersville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% of U.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, 33.6% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Bowersville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (7.9%) . 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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