Russellville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 541 people and just one neighborhood, Russellville is the 660th largest community in Ohio.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Russellville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.49% of the Russellville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Russellville is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Russellville who work in management occupations (16.34%), food service (8.86%), and office and administrative support (7.76%).
It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Russellville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Russellville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Russellville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Russellville may be for you.
One downside of living in Russellville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.65 minutes every day commuting to work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Russellville rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.37% of adults 25 and older in Russellville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Russellville in 2022 was $27,472, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,888 for a family of four. However, Russellville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Russellville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Russellville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Russellville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Russellville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry and 6.7% have French ancestry.
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 Russellville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.3% 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, 40.9% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 14.4% 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 100.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Russellville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.