Baden is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,825 people and just one neighborhood, Baden is the 404th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Baden is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Baden is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Baden who work in office and administrative support (16.37%), food service (8.84%), and management occupations (8.28%).
Also of interest is that Baden has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small borough, Baden doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Baden who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.26% of the adults in Baden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Baden in 2022 was $38,472, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,888 for a family of four. However, Baden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Baden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Baden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Baden include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Baden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 1.9% have Slovak ancestry.
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 Baden are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.3% 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 55.1% 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, 32.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.2%), and 20.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.0%).
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 Baden, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (19.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.5%), among others.
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 (39.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.