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Lynchburg, OH

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Overview


Lynchburg is a very small village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 1,533 people and just one neighborhood, Lynchburg is the 510th largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Lynchburg is a blue-collar town, with 54.33% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lynchburg is a village of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lynchburg who work in office and administrative support (6.96%), sales jobs (6.43%), and healthcare (6.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Lynchburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.21 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lynchburg 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 Lynchburg has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.97% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Lynchburg in 2022 was $27,746, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,984 for a family of four. However, Lynchburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lynchburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lynchburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lynchburg include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Lynchburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lynchburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.1% 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 67.5% of America's neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 40.7% 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 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.8%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Lynchburg, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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