Stoutsville is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 573 people and just one neighborhood, Stoutsville is the 652nd largest community in Ohio. Stoutsville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic villages.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stoutsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.58% of the Stoutsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stoutsville is a village of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stoutsville who work in office and administrative support (9.74%), teaching (8.99%), and management occupations (8.61%).
Also of interest is that Stoutsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Stoutsville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Stoutsville, the average commute to work is 30.82 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small village, Stoutsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Stoutsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.75% of adults in Stoutsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Stoutsville in 2022 was $29,551, which is middle income relative to Ohio, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,204 for a family of four. However, Stoutsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Stoutsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stoutsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Stoutsville include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Stoutsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 7.4% have Scottish ancestry.
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 Stoutsville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 74.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 41.6% 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 35.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (11.9%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.1%).
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 Stoutsville, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (7.2%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.