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Westfield - Knoxville, PA

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Overview


Westfield - Knoxville is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,669 people and just one neighborhood, Westfield - Knoxville is the 418th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Westfield - Knoxville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Westfield - Knoxville is a blue-collar town, with 41.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Westfield - Knoxville is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westfield - Knoxville who work in sales jobs (6.73%), food service (6.60%), and healthcare suport services (6.54%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Westfield - Knoxville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.73% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Westfield - Knoxville in 2018 was $24,287, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,148 for a family of four. However, Westfield - Knoxville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Westfield - Knoxville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 38.1% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.2%).

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 Westfield - Knoxville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 (28.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (8.6%) . 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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