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Orangeville, PA

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Overview


Orangeville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 478 people and just one neighborhood, Orangeville is the 991st largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Orangeville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Orangeville is a blue-collar town, with 38.13% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Orangeville is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Orangeville who work in office and administrative support (25.00%), healthcare suport services (8.75%), and management occupations (8.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Orangeville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Orangeville is worth considering.

Orangeville is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Orangeville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.86% of the adults in Orangeville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Orangeville in 2018 was $22,860, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,440 for a family of four. However, Orangeville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Orangeville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.2% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Pennsylvania.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.1% have Welsh ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Orangeville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 37.8% 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 (17.6%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.6% of households.

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 Orangeville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (10.6%) . 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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