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Stockdale - Allenport, PA

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Overview


Stockdale - Allenport is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,562 people and just one neighborhood, Stockdale - Allenport is the 560th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Stockdale - Allenport is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Stockdale - Allenport is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stockdale - Allenport who work in sales jobs (10.41%), office and administrative support (8.92%), and management occupations (8.74%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.54% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Stockdale - Allenport is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.47% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Stockdale - Allenport in 2018 was $37,977, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,908 for a family of four. However, Stockdale - Allenport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.9% have Belgian ancestry.

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 Stockdale - Allenport are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.6% of U.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, 33.2% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

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 Stockdale - Allenport, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report German roots (14.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (14.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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