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Catasauqua, PA

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Overview


Catasauqua is a somewhat small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 6,480 people and just one neighborhood, Catasauqua is the 205th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Catasauqua was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Catasauqua isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Catasauqua are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Catasauqua is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Catasauqua who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), management occupations (11.32%), and healthcare (9.96%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, Catasauqua is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 27.75% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Catasauqua in 2018 was $35,551, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,204 for a family of four. However, Catasauqua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Catasauqua is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Catasauqua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Catasauqua residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Catasauqua also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.43% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Catasauqua include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Catasauqua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.

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.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 36.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

People

With more than 1.9% of residents living with a same sex partner, is truly a neighborhood that stands out from the rest in this regard. In fact, exclusive analysis by NeighborhoodScout reveals that this neighborhood has a greater concentration of same sex couples than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 5.4% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% 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 95.2% 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 Catasauqua are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.7% 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 65.5% 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, 36.2% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 16.1% 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 89.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Catasauqua, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 (51.6% 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 (6.9%) . 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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