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Black Lick, PA

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Overview


Black Lick is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,268 people and just one neighborhood, Black Lick is the 778th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Black Lick was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Black Lick, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.66% of Black Lick’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Black Lick is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Black Lick who work in maintenance occupations (9.97%), community and social services (8.03%), and management occupations (7.20%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town 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, Black Lick is worth considering.

One of the benefits of Black Lick is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.01 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Black Lick with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.17% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Black Lick in 2018 was $26,476, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,904 for a family of four. However, Black Lick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Black Lick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.2% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.7% 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 98.8% 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 Black Lick are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.5% 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 57.4% 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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Black Lick, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (16.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.9%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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