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Elizabethville, PA

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Overview


Elizabethville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,349 people and just one neighborhood, Elizabethville is the 752nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Elizabethville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Elizabethville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Elizabethville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Elizabethville is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Elizabethville who work in sales jobs (14.84%), food service (12.90%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (11.31%).

Of important note, Elizabethville is also a borough of artists. Elizabethville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Elizabethville’s character.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.38% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Elizabethville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.09% of the adults in Elizabethville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Elizabethville in 2022 was $28,861, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,444 for a family of four. However, Elizabethville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Elizabethville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Elizabethville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elizabethville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Elizabethville include German, Irish, Dutch, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Elizabethville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.8% have Dutch ancestry.

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 Elizabethville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.6% 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, 30.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.2%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.

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 Elizabethville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Dutch roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (11.1%) . 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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