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Frackville, PA

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Overview


Frackville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,870 people and just one neighborhood, Frackville is the 408th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Frackville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Frackville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.46% of Frackville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Frackville is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Frackville who work in office and administrative support (10.48%), sales jobs (8.93%), and healthcare suport services (7.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Frackville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.61% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Frackville in 2018 was $30,276, 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 $121,104 for a family of four. However, Frackville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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, 40.8% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

In addition, if you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 58.9% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.

People

The neighborhood stands out within Pennsylvania for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 10.0% of college-friendly places to live in PA.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 5.7% have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.4% 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 99.5% 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 Frackville 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. With 19.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.4% of U.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, 38.5% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.9%), and 17.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Frackville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Lithuanian ancestry (6.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.2%) 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 (14.6%) . 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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