Central City - Cairnbrook is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,358 people and just one neighborhood, Central City - Cairnbrook is the 439th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some towns, Central City - Cairnbrook isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Central City - Cairnbrook are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Central City - Cairnbrook is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Central City - Cairnbrook who work in healthcare (13.56%), management occupations (9.57%), and office and administrative support (9.37%).
Overall, Central City - Cairnbrook’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Central City - Cairnbrook, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.59 minutes every day commuting to work. It is, however, a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of its neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
Central City - Cairnbrook is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Central City - Cairnbrook, just 12.30% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Central City - Cairnbrook in 2022 was $30,608, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,432 for a family of four. However, Central City - Cairnbrook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Central City - Cairnbrook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Central City - Cairnbrook residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Central City - Cairnbrook include German, Polish, English, Irish, and Slovak.
The most common language spoken in Central City - Cairnbrook is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Central City - Cairnbrook, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 88.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.1% have Hungarian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.0% 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 98.5% 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 Central City - Cairnbrook are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.1% 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, 36.3% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 13.8% 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 98.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Central City - Cairnbrook, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.5%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.7%) 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.