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Masontown, PA

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Overview


Masontown is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,205 people and just one neighborhood, Masontown is the 462nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Masontown has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Masontown is a blue-collar town, with 37.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Masontown is a borough of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Masontown who work in healthcare (8.61%), healthcare suport services (8.52%), and office and administrative support (8.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small borough, Masontown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Masontown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.88% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Masontown in 2018 was $26,275, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,100 for a family of four. However, Masontown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Masontown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

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 Masontown, 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 Slovak and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.0% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.8% 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 96.8% 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 Masontown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.3% 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, 37.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.0%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (7.8%).

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 Masontown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 (34.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (14.5%) . 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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