Mineral City is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 622 people and just one neighborhood, Mineral City is the 637th largest community in Ohio. Mineral City has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Mineral City is a blue-collar town, with 42.77% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mineral City is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mineral City who work in food service (9.65%), healthcare suport services (9.32%), and personal care services (8.36%).
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, Mineral City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mineral 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, Mineral City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Mineral City with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.43% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mineral City in 2022 was $29,483, which is middle income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,932 for a family of four. However, Mineral City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mineral City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mineral City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mineral City include German, Italian, Irish, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in Mineral City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research reveals that 90.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.4% have Danish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Mineral City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 32.4% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 13.0% 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 99.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Mineral City, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.7%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 (55.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.1%) 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.