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Salix, PA

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Overview


Salix is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,043 people and just one neighborhood, Salix is the 820th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Salix isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Salix are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Salix is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salix who work in healthcare (16.97%), food service (14.98%), and office and administrative support (8.26%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Salix telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.65% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Salix is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

As is often the case in a small town, Salix doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Salix citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.38% of adults in Salix have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Salix in 2018 was $30,723, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,892 for a family of four. However, Salix contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 46.1% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.5% 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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Salix are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.3% 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 55.0% of America's neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 34.2% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Salix, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 (41.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (12.6%) . 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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