ABSTRACT
Ohio central-city neighborhoods are defined by postal zip code. There are as many jobs in the middle-class neighborhoods of Ohio's central cities as in extreme-poverty neighbourhoods. With the exception of the retail, producer services, and personal services sectors, poorer neighborhoods are not particularly disadvantaged. The overwhelming importance of neighborhood poverty to the description of central-city neighborhoods makes it logical to examine their poverty status in detail. In fact, poverty neighborhoods showed unexpected strength in the relative number of jobs in manufacturing, wholesaling, information services, and social services. The chapter shows the relationships between neighborhood poverty and employment for various industrial classifications. It includes a breakdown for each major industry division, indicating the relationship between industry employment and neighborhood poverty, categorized according to the five employment and establishment variables. The employment and establishment variables are total employment, total establishments, employment per 1,000 residents, average number of employees per establishment, and neighborhood residents per establishment.
