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Midway, PA

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Overview


Midway is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 916 people and just one neighborhood, Midway is the 847th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Midway, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.81% of Midway’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Midway is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Midway who work in sales jobs (13.68%), healthcare (8.96%), and office and administrative support (5.47%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

In Midway, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.44 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Midway is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Midway are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.43% of adults in Midway have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Midway in 2018 was $30,744, 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 $122,976 for a family of four. However, Midway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 1.6% have Lithuanian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.8% 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 97.3% 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 Midway are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.6% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 15.4% 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 98.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Midway, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.5%), and residents who report English roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.1%), 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 (45.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (13.7%) . 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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