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Garrett, PA

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Overview


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. Garrett has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Garrett is a blue-collar town, with 40.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Garrett is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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.

Being a small borough, Garrett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Garrett ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.76% of people over 25 have a college degree.

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.

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

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

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.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. 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.

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 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.

Languages

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.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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.

Getting to Work

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 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.


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