Gillett is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,172 people and just one neighborhood, Gillett is the 373rd largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Gillett, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.31% of Gillett’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gillett is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gillett who work in healthcare (9.79%), office and administrative support (9.16%), and sales jobs (7.91%).
The town 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, Gillett has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gillett a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Gillett, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.05 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Gillett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Gillett who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.20% of the adults in Gillett have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gillett in 2022 was $34,064, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,256 for a family of four. However, Gillett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gillett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gillett residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Gillett include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Gillett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.7% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% 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 96.9% 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 Gillett are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.2% of U.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, 35.2% 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 (19.9%), and 12.4% 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 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Gillett, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (46.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.8%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.