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Dayton, PA

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Overview


Dayton is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 544 people and just one neighborhood, Dayton is the 965th largest community in Pennsylvania. Dayton 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, Dayton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dayton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dayton is a borough of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dayton who work in management occupations (17.32%), maintenance occupations (15.08%), and business and financial occupations (11.73%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Dayton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.65 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small borough, Dayton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Dayton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.92% of adults in Dayton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Dayton in 2018 was $21,642, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,568 for a family of four. However, Dayton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Dayton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Dayton, 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 Croatian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 3.3% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% 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 Dayton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.7% 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, 39.4% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.2%).

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 Dayton, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (12.6%) . 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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