Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown median real estate price is $184,463, which is less expensive than 73.1% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods and 80.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown is currently $1,508, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 63.2% of Pennsylvania neighborhoods.
Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown has a 10.1% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 61.9% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 35.7% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
With 1.7% of employed workers living in the Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 95.7% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Did you know that the Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood has more Slovak and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.3% have Hungarian ancestry.
Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.9% 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 Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood in Johnstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.4% 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 66.5% of America'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 Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood, 41.3% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 11.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.4%).
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 Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood in Johnstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.7%), 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 Scalp Level / University of Pittsburgh Johnstown neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (5.9%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.