McAlisterville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 920 people and just one neighborhood, McAlisterville is the 848th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in McAlisterville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.97% of McAlisterville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McAlisterville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McAlisterville who work in office and administrative support (18.97%), healthcare suport services (7.59%), and food service (6.55%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.52% 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.
McAlisterville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of McAlisterville has a very low overall level of education: only 7.00% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in McAlisterville in 2022 was $27,917, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,668 for a family of four. However, McAlisterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McAlisterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McAlisterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McAlisterville include German, English, Pennsylvania German, Swiss, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in McAlisterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 5.9% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 24.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% 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 McAlisterville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 37.8% 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 17.6% in executive, management, and professional 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 72.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish and Italian.
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 McAlisterville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.1%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Yugoslav ancestry (5.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.5%) 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 (14.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.