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Connoquenessing, PA

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Overview


Connoquenessing is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 736 people and just one neighborhood, Connoquenessing is the 926th largest community in Pennsylvania. Connoquenessing has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Connoquenessing, where the median household income is $79,911.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Connoquenessing is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Connoquenessing is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Connoquenessing who work in business and financial occupations (12.50%), office and administrative support (11.74%), and sales jobs (9.09%).

Also of interest is that Connoquenessing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.15% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Connoquenessing is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Connoquenessing a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Connoquenessing has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Connoquenessing’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Connoquenessing is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Connoquenessing, the average commute to work is 31.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The citizens of Connoquenessing are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 39.32% of adults in Connoquenessing have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Connoquenessing in 2022 was $40,477, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $161,908 for a family of four. However, Connoquenessing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Connoquenessing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Connoquenessing residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Connoquenessing include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Connoquenessing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are planning to retire in Pennsylvania, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.1% of neighborhoods in PA. If a Pennsylvania retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 1.2% have Croatian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.6% 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 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Connoquenessing are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.6% 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 34.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 99.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Connoquenessing, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (41.6% 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 addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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