Howard - Blanchard is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,780 people and just one neighborhood, Howard - Blanchard is the 414th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some towns, Howard - Blanchard isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Howard - Blanchard are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Howard - Blanchard is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Howard - Blanchard who work in office and administrative support (10.04%), management occupations (8.79%), and food service (7.82%).
Also of interest is that Howard - Blanchard has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Howard - Blanchard is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Howard - Blanchard, the average commute to work is 33.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Howard - Blanchard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Howard - Blanchard is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.39% of adults 25 and older in Howard - Blanchard have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Howard - Blanchard in 2022 was $35,756, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $143,024 for a family of four. However, Howard - Blanchard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Howard - Blanchard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Howard - Blanchard residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Howard - Blanchard include German, English, Irish, Pennsylvania German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Howard - Blanchard 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 Howard - Blanchard, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 45 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 2.9% 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 97.9% 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 Howard - Blanchard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.9% of America'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, 31.4% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.1%), and 12.8% 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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Howard - Blanchard, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.3%), along with some Polish 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.