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Boswell, PA

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Overview


Boswell is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,212 people and just one neighborhood, Boswell is the 790th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Boswell is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Boswell is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Boswell who work in office and administrative support (16.55%), sales jobs (11.80%), and healthcare (7.04%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

In Boswell, just 8.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Boswell in 2018 was $27,086, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,344 for a family of four. However, Boswell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 1.5% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Boswell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% of U.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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.4%), and 20.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (8.0%).

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 Boswell, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.4%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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