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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. Much of the housing stock in Elkland - Osceola was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Elkland - Osceola is a blue-collar town, with 36.73% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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 (10.74%), management occupations (9.74%), and office and administrative support (8.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Elkland - Osceola, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.19 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Elkland - Osceola are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.24% of adults in Elkland - Osceola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Elkland - Osceola in 2018 was $30,055, 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 $120,220 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, Irish, Italian, 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

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

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

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 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 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.1% 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, 36.4% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 14.2% 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

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 Elkland - Osceola, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (9.0%) . 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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