Overview
Killbuck is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 804 people and just one neighborhood, Killbuck is the 605th largest community in Ohio. Killbuck has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Killbuck is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.26% of the Killbuck workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Killbuck is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Killbuck who work in office and administrative support (20.13%), sales jobs (12.08%), and food service (10.23%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Killbuck 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.
Demographics
The population of Killbuck has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.88% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Killbuck in 2022 was $36,303, which is upper middle income relative to Ohio, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,212 for a family of four. However, Killbuck contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Killbuck home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Killbuck residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Killbuck include German, English, Irish, Swiss, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Killbuck is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Polish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Killbuck, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.0% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.7% 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 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Killbuck are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.0%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Killbuck, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report Swiss roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (47.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
