Garrett is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 417 people and just one neighborhood, Garrett is the 1016th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Garrett was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Garrett is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.50% of the Garrett workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Garrett is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Garrett who work in office and administrative support (13.00%), law enforcement and fire fighting (8.50%), and healthcare suport services (6.50%).
Overall, Garrett’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The borough 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, Garrett has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Garrett a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Garrett 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.
The population of Garrett has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.76% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Garrett in 2022 was $28,231, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,924 for a family of four. However, Garrett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Garrett is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Garrett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Garrett residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Garrett include German, Irish, English, French, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Garrett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Polish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 39.7% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 96.8% 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.
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 Garrett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.7% 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, 36.5% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 15.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 83.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, 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 Garrett, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.7%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.