Fultonham is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 112 people and just one neighborhood, Fultonham is the 812th largest community in Ohio. Fultonham has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fultonham is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.72% of the Fultonham workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fultonham is a village of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fultonham who work in office and administrative support (8.70%), sales jobs (8.70%), and maintenance occupations (7.25%).
Of important note, Fultonham is also a village of artists. Fultonham has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fultonham’s character.
Because of many things, Fultonham is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fultonham really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fultonham perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet village 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!) Fultonham 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. Fultonham has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fultonham than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fultonham may be for you.
In Fultonham, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.81 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Fultonham 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 percentage of people in Fultonham with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fultonham in 2022 was $29,009, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,036 for a family of four. However, Fultonham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fultonham home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fultonham residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fultonham include Irish, German, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Fultonham is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Fultonham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 23.5% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 2.2% 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 96.9% 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 Fultonham are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.8% of America'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, 37.2% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (2.2%).
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 Fultonham, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.2%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.