The presentation will explore the demography of residents in the four Shaker villages in Ohio in 1850: their numbers, ages, sex ratios, levels of schooling, occupations, birthplaces, and potential kinship/family links. Each village's characteristics differed, not only from each other but from the demography of their surrounding counties and from Shaker characteristics nationwide. Also included will be a discussion of the basic beliefs of Shakers and a brief review of the development and demise of Ohio's Shaker villages. Except for Whitewater Village in Hamilton County, little physical evidence remains of the villages.