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Marianna, PA

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Overview


Marianna is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 393 people and just one neighborhood, Marianna is the 1022nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Marianna has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Marianna is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.45% of the Marianna workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Marianna is a borough of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Marianna who work in sales jobs (23.58%), healthcare suport services (7.55%), and computer science and math (7.08%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Marianna’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

One downside of living in Marianna, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.22 minutes every day commuting to work.

Marianna is a very car-oriented borough. 98.05% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Marianna is a small borough , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Marianna has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small borough, Marianna doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Marianna has a very low overall level of education: only 8.37% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Marianna in 2022 was $25,136, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,544 for a family of four. However, Marianna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Marianna is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Marianna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marianna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Marianna include German, English, Irish, Portuguese, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Marianna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Marianna, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.3% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.9% 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 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Marianna are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.4% 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, 33.7% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Marianna, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.4%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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.


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