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Bessemer, PA

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Overview


Bessemer is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,053 people and just one neighborhood, Bessemer is the 815th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Bessemer is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bessemer is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bessemer who work in office and administrative support (9.56%), management occupations (9.56%), and food service (9.33%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Bessemer’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Demographics

The citizens of Bessemer are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.54% of adults in Bessemer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Bessemer in 2018 was $33,315, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,260 for a family of four. However, Bessemer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.8% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 19.8% have Italian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 28.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% 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 Bessemer are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% 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 58.7% 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, 32.0% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.0%), and 19.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (28.0%).

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 Bessemer, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (19.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.5%), along with some Croatian ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 (37.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (93.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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