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Archbald, PA

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Overview


Archbald is a somewhat small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 7,405 people and just one neighborhood, Archbald is the 177th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Archbald isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Archbald are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Archbald is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Archbald who work in sales jobs (15.64%), healthcare (8.54%), and management occupations (7.36%).

Also of interest is that Archbald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Archbald is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Archbald a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Archbald has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Archbald’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Archbald is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.36% of adults in Archbald have a college degree.

The per capita income in Archbald in 2018 was $30,969, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $123,876 for a family of four. However, Archbald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Archbald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Archbald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Archbald include Irish, Italian, Polish, German, and English.

The most common language spoken in Archbald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Indo-European.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Archbald, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 20.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 2.6% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 20.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% 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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Archbald are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.4% 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 53.0% 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, 37.3% 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (20.1%).

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 Archbald, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (26.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (20.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (17.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.9%) . 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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