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Perryopolis - Star Junction, PA

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Overview


Perryopolis - Star Junction is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,946 people and just one neighborhood, Perryopolis - Star Junction is the 385th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Perryopolis - Star Junction is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Perryopolis - Star Junction is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Perryopolis - Star Junction who work in sales jobs (14.32%), office and administrative support (12.30%), and healthcare (8.39%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Perryopolis - Star Junction, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.73 minutes every day commuting to work.

Perryopolis - Star Junction 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

The population of Perryopolis - Star Junction overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Perryopolis - Star Junction, 22.15% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Perryopolis - Star Junction in 2018 was $33,776, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,104 for a family of four. However, Perryopolis - Star Junction contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Perryopolis - Star Junction is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 5.5% have Hungarian 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 Perryopolis - Star Junction are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% 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 55.0% of America'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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% 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 Perryopolis - Star Junction, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (13.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.8%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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