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Dayton, OH
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Living in Dayton



Dayton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 135,944 people and 71 associated neighborhoods, Dayton is the sixth largest community in Ohio.

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Dayton 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. Dayton has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dayton than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dayton may be for you.

One of the benefits of Dayton is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 0.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Even though Dayton is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

The population of Dayton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

Dayton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dayton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dayton residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Dayton include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

The most common language spoken in Dayton is Other Asian languages. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Russian.