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Wyoming, PA

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Overview


Wyoming is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,116 people and just one neighborhood, Wyoming is the 478th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Wyoming is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 85.73% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wyoming is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyoming who work in management occupations (18.85%), office and administrative support (16.28%), and healthcare (12.84%).

A relatively large number of people in Wyoming telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.21% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Wyoming is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Wyoming ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Wyoming, 41.62% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.

The per capita income in Wyoming in 2022 was $43,335, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $173,340 for a family of four.

The people who call Wyoming home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyoming residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Wyoming include Italian, Irish, Polish, German, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Wyoming is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Wyoming, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 25.9% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.3% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Wyoming are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.3% 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, 49.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 18.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.0%), and 14.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (19.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Wyoming, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (34.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (31.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (25.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (14.9%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (8.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (54.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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.


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