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Morrisdale, PA

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Overview


Morrisdale is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 684 people and just one neighborhood, Morrisdale is the 917th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Morrisdale is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morrisdale is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Morrisdale who work in food service (21.13%), maintenance occupations (13.92%), and healthcare (8.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Morrisdale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Morrisdale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Morrisdale, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.63 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

Morrisdale ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.43% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Morrisdale in 2018 was $23,518, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,072 for a family of four. However, Morrisdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 7.6% have Swedish 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 Morrisdale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.6% 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, 31.3% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 16.8% 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 96.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish, Italian and Spanish.

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 Morrisdale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (7.8%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (7.6%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (17.4%) . 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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