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Harleigh, PA

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Overview


Harleigh is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,050 people and just one neighborhood, Harleigh is the 818th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Harleigh, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.51% of Harleigh’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Harleigh is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harleigh who work in art, media, and design (13.05%), personal care services (8.28%), and healthcare suport services (8.16%).

Of important note, Harleigh is also a town of artists. Harleigh has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Harleigh’s character.

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!) Harleigh 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. Harleigh has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Harleigh than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Harleigh may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of Harleigh has a very low overall level of education: only 9.46% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Harleigh in 2018 was $43,954, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $175,816 for a family of four.

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

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

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 Harleigh, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the neighborhood could be your paradise. With 38.1% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 2.1% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 34.9% have Italian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Harleigh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.8% 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, 40.1% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households.

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 Harleigh, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (34.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (10.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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