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Allentown, NJ

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Overview


Allentown is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 1,733 people and just one neighborhood, Allentown is the 440th largest community in New Jersey.

Occupations and Workforce

Allentown is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 88.46% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Allentown is a borough of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Allentown who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), teaching (11.84%), and healthcare (8.66%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.44% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Allentown is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Allentown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Allentown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.56 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

If knowledge is power, Allentown is a pretty powerful place. 54.15% of the adults in Allentown have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Allentown in 2018 was $52,881, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $211,524 for a family of four.

Allentown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Allentown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Allentown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Allentown include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Allentown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and French.

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 Allentown, 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 Irish and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 1.4% have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.7% 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 Allentown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 83.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% 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 80.1% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 46.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 11.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Allentown, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (28.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report German roots (17.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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