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Normalville, PA

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Overview


Normalville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,697 people and just one neighborhood, Normalville is the 248th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Normalville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.95% of Normalville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Normalville is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Normalville who work in office and administrative support (13.41%), management occupations (9.90%), and food service (8.58%).

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, Normalville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Normalville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Normalville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Normalville, the average commute to work is 32.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Normalville 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

In Normalville, just 12.73% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Normalville in 2018 was $31,241, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,964 for a family of four. However, Normalville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.9% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.9% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 5.1% have Dutch 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 Normalville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.8% of America'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, 42.8% 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 22.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.1%), and 16.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.

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 Normalville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.9%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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