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Elkland - Osceola, PA

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Overview


Elkland - Osceola is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,585 people and just one neighborhood, Elkland - Osceola is the 424th largest community in Pennsylvania. Elkland - Osceola has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elkland - Osceola is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.33% of the Elkland - Osceola workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elkland - Osceola is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elkland - Osceola who work in sales jobs (9.46%), management occupations (9.19%), and office and administrative support (9.12%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Elkland - Osceola has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Elkland - Osceola has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elkland - Osceola than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elkland - Osceola may be for you.

Being a small town, Elkland - Osceola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Elkland - Osceola rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.82% of adults 25 and older in Elkland - Osceola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Elkland - Osceola in 2018 was $27,770, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,080 for a family of four. However, Elkland - Osceola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Elkland - Osceola, 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 Greek ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.1% 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 96.0% 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 Elkland - Osceola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 38.0% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 15.3% 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 99.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Elkland - Osceola, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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