Bristolville is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 3,926 people and just one neighborhood, Bristolville is the 317th largest community in Ohio.
When you are in Bristolville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.71% of Bristolville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bristolville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bristolville who work in office and administrative support (13.12%), management occupations (9.76%), and teaching (7.52%).
Because of many things, Bristolville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Bristolville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Bristolville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Bristolville’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bristolville is worth considering.
The citizens of Bristolville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.45% of adults in Bristolville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Bristolville in 2022 was $33,340, 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 $133,360 for a family of four. However, Bristolville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bristolville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bristolville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bristolville include German, Pennsylvania German, English, Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Bristolville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.2% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.1% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bristolville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 31.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.9% 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, 36.4% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 16.8% 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 88.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Italian and Polish.
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 Bristolville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (42.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.7%) 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 (18.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.