Bentleyville - Ellsworth is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,272 people and just one neighborhood, Bentleyville - Ellsworth is the 461st largest community in Pennsylvania. Bentleyville - Ellsworth has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bentleyville - Ellsworth is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bentleyville - Ellsworth is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bentleyville - Ellsworth who work in office and administrative support (17.34%), management occupations (9.38%), and sales jobs (7.12%).
In Bentleyville - Ellsworth, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Bentleyville - Ellsworth who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.25% of the adults in Bentleyville - Ellsworth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bentleyville - Ellsworth in 2022 was $27,712, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,848 for a family of four. However, Bentleyville - Ellsworth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bentleyville - Ellsworth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bentleyville - Ellsworth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bentleyville - Ellsworth include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Bentleyville - Ellsworth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood stands out within Pennsylvania for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 9.6% of college-friendly places to live in PA.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.6% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.7% 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 98.7% 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 Bentleyville - Ellsworth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.7% 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, 28.8% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 21.0% 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 96.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Bentleyville - Ellsworth, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 (32.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.