Dupont is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,549 people and just one neighborhood, Dupont is the 565th largest community in Pennsylvania. Dupont has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Unlike some boroughs, Dupont isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dupont are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dupont is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dupont who work in office and administrative support (17.53%), management occupations (11.62%), and healthcare suport services (9.16%).
Being a small borough, Dupont does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Dupont rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.88% of adults 25 and older in Dupont have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Dupont in 2022 was $33,328, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,312 for a family of four. However, Dupont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dupont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dupont residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dupont include Irish, Polish, Italian, German, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Dupont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Dupont, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 90.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 7.2% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 27.4% 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 99.9% 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 Dupont are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 28.6% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (26.7%), and 17.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 92.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Dupont, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (31.1%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (28.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (21.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.1%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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.