Nemacolin is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 826 people and just one neighborhood, Nemacolin is the 877th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Nemacolin was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Nemacolin is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.76% of the Nemacolin workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Nemacolin is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Nemacolin who work in sales jobs (18.28%), healthcare (13.79%), and management occupations (11.72%).
As is often the case in a small town, Nemacolin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Nemacolin has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 1.08% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Nemacolin in 2022 was $13,940, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $55,760 for a family of four. Nemacolin also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.99% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Nemacolin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nemacolin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Nemacolin include German, Italian, Pennsylvania German, Scottish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Nemacolin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% 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 98.4% 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 Nemacolin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 32.6% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 17.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.7%).
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 Nemacolin, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (8.4%), 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 (29.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.9%) 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%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.