Black Lick is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,268 people and just one neighborhood, Black Lick is the 778th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Black Lick, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.42% of Black Lick’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Black Lick is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Black Lick who work in maintenance occupations (16.35%), sales jobs (15.09%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Black Lick has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Black Lick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Black Lick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Black Lick may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.59 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Black Lick doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Black Lick, just 7.34% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Black Lick in 2022 was $25,248, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,992 for a family of four. However, Black Lick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Black Lick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Black Lick residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Black Lick include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Black Lick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Italian.
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 Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.9% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.7% 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 98.8% 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 Black Lick are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% 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 50.3% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (28.1%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Black Lick, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.4%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.