Orwell is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,511 people and just one neighborhood, Orwell is the 505th largest community in Ohio.
When you are in Orwell, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.70% of Orwell’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Orwell is a village of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orwell who work in sales jobs (11.21%), office and administrative support (9.47%), and food service (9.03%).
Also of interest is that Orwell has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Orwell’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
As is often the case in a small village, Orwell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Orwell has a very low overall level of education: only 9.96% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Orwell in 2022 was $23,727, which is low income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,908 for a family of four. However, Orwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Orwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Orwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Orwell include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Orwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 0.8% have Romanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% 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 Orwell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 42.0% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (8.4%).
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 Orwell, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.