Snow Shoe - Clarence is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,666 people and just one neighborhood, Snow Shoe - Clarence is the 544th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some towns, Snow Shoe - Clarence isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Snow Shoe - Clarence are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Snow Shoe - Clarence is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Snow Shoe - Clarence who work in office and administrative support (12.55%), management occupations (10.02%), and healthcare suport services (6.46%).
One downside of living in Snow Shoe - Clarence is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Snow Shoe - Clarence, the average commute to work is 33.62 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The rate of college-level education in Snow Shoe - Clarence is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.25% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Snow Shoe - Clarence in 2022 was $32,267, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,068 for a family of four. However, Snow Shoe - Clarence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Snow Shoe - Clarence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Snow Shoe - Clarence residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Snow Shoe - Clarence include German, Irish, Slovak, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Snow Shoe - Clarence is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish 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 Snow Shoe - Clarence, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 16 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.7% of America.
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, 9.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.7% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Snow Shoe - Clarence are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.6% of U.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, 33.4% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 19.0% 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 99.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Snow Shoe - Clarence, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report Slovak roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (37.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (14.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.