Avonmore is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 888 people and just one neighborhood, Avonmore is the 852nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Avonmore has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Avonmore is a blue-collar town, with 46.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Avonmore is a borough of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Avonmore who work in office and administrative support (9.56%), food service (6.54%), and teaching (6.38%).
Overall, Avonmore’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
As is often the case in a small borough, Avonmore doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Avonmore who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.98% of the adults in Avonmore have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Avonmore in 2022 was $28,796, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,184 for a family of four. However, Avonmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Avonmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Avonmore residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Avonmore include German, Polish, Italian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Avonmore is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.4% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Avonmore are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.0% 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 68.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.7% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (8.9%).
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 Avonmore, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (12.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (10.1%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.