Marianna is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 389 people and just one neighborhood, Marianna is the 1022nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Marianna was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Marianna is a blue-collar town, with 47.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Marianna is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marianna who work in sales jobs (19.90%), management occupations (7.85%), and office and administrative support (5.24%).
Because of many things, Marianna is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Marianna really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Marianna perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Marianna is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Marianna, the average commute to work is 38.27 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Marianna is very much a car-oriented borough. This is because the population of Marianna isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.01% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small borough, Marianna doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Marianna with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.43% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Marianna in 2022 was $23,270, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,080 for a family of four. However, Marianna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Marianna is a very 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. Marianna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.78% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Marianna include German, Italian, Russian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Marianna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.7% have Scots-Irish 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.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this 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 42.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.1% 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, 34.4% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.0%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Marianna, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.9%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.4%), among others.
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 (37.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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.