Overview
Utica is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,115 people and just one neighborhood, Utica is the 458th largest community in Ohio. Utica has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Occupations and Workforce
Utica is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Utica is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Utica who work in office and administrative support (14.26%), sales jobs (11.43%), and business and financial occupations (11.05%).
A relatively large number of people in Utica telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.80% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Setting & Lifestyle
In Utica, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.20 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Utica doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Utica are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.14% of adults in Utica have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Utica in 2022 was $28,671, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,684 for a family of four. However, Utica contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Utica is a very ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Utica home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Utica residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Utica include German, African, Irish, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Utica is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.5% have Welsh ancestry.
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 Utica 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 51.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% 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, 38.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.2%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Utica, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (6.4%), along with some African ancestry residents (6.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
