Overview
Little Hocking is a tiny town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 244 people and just one neighborhood, Little Hocking is the 765th largest community in Ohio.
Occupations and Workforce
Little Hocking is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Little Hocking is a town of service providers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Little Hocking who work in healthcare suport services (39.42%), management occupations (26.92%), and sales jobs (6.73%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Little Hocking is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Little Hocking 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. Little Hocking has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Little Hocking than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Little Hocking may be for you.
One downside of living in Little Hocking is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Little Hocking, the average commute to work is 35.33 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Little Hocking doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Little Hocking with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.37% of adults in Little Hocking have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Little Hocking in 2022 was $26,592, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,368 for a family of four. However, Little Hocking contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Little Hocking home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Little Hocking residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Little Hocking include English, Welsh, German, Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Little Hocking is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and African languages.
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 Little Hocking, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 6.9% have French Canadian ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Little Hocking are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.4% 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 56.9% 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, 41.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.0%), and 14.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Little Hocking, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (27.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report German roots (20.9%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (46.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.5%) 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.
