Centre Hall is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,247 people and just one neighborhood, Centre Hall is the 778th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Centre Hall was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Centre Hall is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Centre Hall is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Centre Hall who work in sales jobs (11.27%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.70%), and office and administrative support (8.87%).
Being a small borough, Centre Hall does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Centre Hall overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Centre Hall, 21.82% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Centre Hall in 2022 was $30,328, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,312 for a family of four. However, Centre Hall contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Centre Hall home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Centre Hall residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Centre Hall include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Centre Hall is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Centre Hall, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 35.6% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% 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 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Centre Hall are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.2% 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, 41.9% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.6%), and 15.5% 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 Italian and Polish.
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 Centre Hall, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 (65.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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.