Ronco is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 209 people and just one neighborhood, Ronco is the 1086th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Ronco is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ronco is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ronco who work in healthcare suport services (100.00%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
The overall crime rate in Ronco is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ronco has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ronco has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ronco than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ronco may be for you.
In Ronco, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Ronco is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Ronco is a small town , 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. Ronco has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Ronco 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 percentage of people in Ronco who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.89% of adults in Ronco have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Ronco in 2022 was $56,320, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $225,280 for a family of four. However, Ronco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ronco is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ronco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ronco residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ronco include Other Subsaharan African, Serbian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
Ronco also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 26.67%.
The most common language spoken in Ronco is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Our research reveals that 96.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 6.2% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.4% 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 98.9% 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 neighborhood in Ronco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% 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, 31.0% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.6%), and 19.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Ronco, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.0%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (50.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (96.9%) 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.