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Wiconisco - Lykens, PA

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Overview


Wiconisco - Lykens is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,027 people and just one neighborhood, Wiconisco - Lykens is the 490th largest community in Pennsylvania. Wiconisco - Lykens has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wiconisco - Lykens is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.61% of the Wiconisco - Lykens workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wiconisco - Lykens is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wiconisco - Lykens who work in office and administrative support (15.18%), sales jobs (5.94%), and management occupations (5.70%).

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Wiconisco - Lykens’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

In Wiconisco - Lykens, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.47 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Wiconisco - Lykens with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.03% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wiconisco - Lykens in 2018 was $30,011, 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 $120,044 for a family of four. However, Wiconisco - Lykens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wiconisco - Lykens is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wiconisco - Lykens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wiconisco - Lykens residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wiconisco - Lykens include German, Irish, Polish, Dutch, and English.

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

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 Wiconisco - Lykens, 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 German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 40.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.

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 Wiconisco - Lykens are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.2% 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, 41.4% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 14.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.5%).

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 Wiconisco - Lykens, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Polish roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (63.2%) 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 (19.9%) . 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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