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Saxonburg, PA

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Overview


Saxonburg is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,398 people and just one neighborhood, Saxonburg is the 743rd largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Saxonburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.48% of the Saxonburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Saxonburg is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Saxonburg who work in office and administrative support (15.96%), management occupations (9.12%), and healthcare suport services (6.84%).

A relatively large number of people in Saxonburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.76% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Overall, Saxonburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

Demographics

The education level of Saxonburg citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.48% of adults in Saxonburg have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Saxonburg in 2018 was $34,587, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $138,348 for a family of four. However, Saxonburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are planning to retire in Pennsylvania, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.8% of neighborhoods in PA. If a Pennsylvania retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 3.0% have Slovak ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.6% 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 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Saxonburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.3% 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 77.8% 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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 15.6% 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 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Saxonburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.8%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

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 (6.7%) . 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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