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Nesquehoning, PA

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Overview


Nesquehoning is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,350 people and just one neighborhood, Nesquehoning is the 457th largest community in Pennsylvania. Nesquehoning has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Nesquehoning isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Nesquehoning are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nesquehoning is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Nesquehoning who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), food service (8.97%), and teaching (7.97%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Nesquehoning is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Nesquehoning, the average commute to work is 32.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Nesquehoning 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

In terms of college education, the citizens of Nesquehoning rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.97% of adults 25 and older in Nesquehoning have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Nesquehoning in 2018 was $22,532, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,128 for a family of four. However, Nesquehoning contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

People

Of particular note, 6.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

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 32.5% 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 2.8% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.7% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Ukrainian 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 2.7% have Ukrainian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.6% 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 99.6% 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 Nesquehoning are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.5% 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, 32.0% 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 (23.2%), and 20.0% 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 96.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish 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 Nesquehoning, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (19.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (8.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.3%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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