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Broad Top, PA

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Overview


Broad Top is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 363 people and just one neighborhood, Broad Top is the 1032nd largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Broad Top is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.25% of the Broad Top workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Broad Top is a borough of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Broad Top who work in sales jobs (8.47%), art, media, and design (8.05%), and healthcare (7.20%).

Of important note, Broad Top is also a borough of artists. Broad Top has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Broad Top’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Broad Top’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

One downside of living in Broad Top, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 44.58 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small borough, Broad Top does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Broad Top is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.32% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Broad Top in 2018 was $33,849, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,396 for a family of four. However, Broad Top contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Broad Top home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Broad Top residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Broad Top include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Broad Top 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.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. 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. 10.3% 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 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 39 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.0% of America. 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 Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents 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 Broad Top are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.2% 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, 35.8% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.8%).

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 Broad Top, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.8%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (9.8%) . 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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