Homestead is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,887 people and just one neighborhood, Homestead is the 511th largest community in Pennsylvania. Homestead has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Homestead is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Homestead is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Homestead who work in sales jobs (17.82%), healthcare suport services (12.95%), and office and administrative support (9.06%).
Also of interest is that Homestead has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Homestead telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.02% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Homestead, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.54 minutes every day commuting to work. It is, however, a pedestrian-friendly borough. Many of its neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot. In addition, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
For a small borough, Homestead has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Homestead exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
The percentage of adults in Homestead with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.56% of adults in Homestead have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Homestead in 2022 was $28,380, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,520 for a family of four. However, Homestead contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Homestead is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Homestead home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Homestead residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Homestead include German, Irish, Italian, English, and African.
The most common language spoken in Homestead is English. Other important languages spoken here include Vietnamese and Slavic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Sub-Saharan African and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Sub-Saharan African ancestry and 1.6% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% 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 Homestead are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.0%), and 19.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Vietnamese (3.0%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Homestead, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Sub-Saharan African (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of African ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.7%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (48.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (30.7%) and 10.0% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.