Slatedale is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 458 people and just one neighborhood, Slatedale is the 999th largest community in Pennsylvania. Slatedale has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
When you are in Slatedale, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.46% of Slatedale’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Slatedale is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Slatedale who work in sales jobs (21.99%), office and administrative support (11.70%), and management occupations (10.28%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Slatedale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Slatedale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Slatedale 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.
In Slatedale, just 6.47% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Slatedale in 2022 was $36,353, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $145,412 for a family of four.
Slatedale is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Slatedale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slatedale residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Slatedale include German, English, Irish, Hungarian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Slatedale is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 Slatedale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 3.4% have Ukrainian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.0% 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 99.2% 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 Slatedale are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% 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.
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, 39.6% 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 36.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.6%), and 9.0% 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 99.1% 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 Slatedale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.1%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.