Darlington is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 244 people and just one neighborhood, Darlington is the 1072nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Darlington has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Darlington is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Darlington is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Darlington who work in food service (22.22%), healthcare (14.81%), and sales jobs (13.89%).
Being a small borough, Darlington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Darlington who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.15% of adults in Darlington have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Darlington in 2022 was $22,655, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,620 for a family of four. However, Darlington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Darlington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Darlington residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Darlington include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Darlington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 23.5% have Irish ancestry.
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 Darlington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.2% of America'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, 31.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.0%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.
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 Darlington, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (17.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.8%), 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 (31.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.0%) 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 (18.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.