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Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH

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Overview


Geneva-on-the-Lake is a tiny village located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 933 people and just one neighborhood, Geneva-on-the-Lake is the 593rd largest community in Ohio.

Occupations and Workforce

Geneva-on-the-Lake is a blue-collar town, with 35.63% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Geneva-on-the-Lake is a village of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Geneva-on-the-Lake who work in office and administrative support (19.41%), sales jobs (11.55%), and management occupations (9.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Geneva-on-the-Lake is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the village’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter 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!) Geneva-on-the-Lake 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. Geneva-on-the-Lake has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Geneva-on-the-Lake than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Geneva-on-the-Lake may be for you.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Geneva-on-the-Lake with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.33% of adults in Geneva-on-the-Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Geneva-on-the-Lake in 2022 was $28,854, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,416 for a family of four. However, Geneva-on-the-Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Geneva-on-the-Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Geneva-on-the-Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Geneva-on-the-Lake include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Geneva-on-the-Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 52.7% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Geneva-on-the-Lake neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.8% have Croatian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Geneva-on-the-Lake are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.1% 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 20.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 17.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 95.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Geneva-on-the-Lake, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (71.2%) 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 (19.1%) . 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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