Shreve is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,494 people and just one neighborhood, Shreve is the 513th largest community in Ohio. Shreve has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
When you are in Shreve, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.49% of Shreve’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Shreve is a village of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shreve who work in food service (9.82%), sales jobs (8.28%), and healthcare suport services (8.28%).
Shreve is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Shreve has a very low overall level of education: only 8.07% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Shreve in 2022 was $31,273, which is middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $125,092 for a family of four. However, Shreve contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shreve home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shreve residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shreve include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Shreve is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.3% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Shreve are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.5% of America'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, 39.6% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 12.1% 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 97.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Shreve, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (9.0%) and 7.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.