Elkland - Osceola is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,562 people and just one neighborhood, Elkland - Osceola is the 424th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Elkland - Osceola was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Elkland - Osceola is a blue-collar town, with 36.73% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Elkland - Osceola is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elkland - Osceola who work in sales jobs (10.74%), management occupations (9.74%), and office and administrative support (8.74%).
One downside of living in Elkland - Osceola, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.19 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Elkland - Osceola doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Elkland - Osceola are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.24% of adults in Elkland - Osceola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Elkland - Osceola in 2022 was $30,055, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,220 for a family of four. However, Elkland - Osceola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Elkland - Osceola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elkland - Osceola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elkland - Osceola include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Elkland - Osceola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Elkland - Osceola, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 7.1% 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 96.0% 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 Elkland - Osceola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.1% 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, 36.4% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 14.2% 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 99.9% 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 Elkland - Osceola, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (33.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.0%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.