Prompton is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 236 people and just one neighborhood, Prompton is the 1075th largest community in Pennsylvania. Prompton has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Prompton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Prompton is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prompton who work in office and administrative support (14.58%), healthcare (11.11%), and maintenance occupations (6.94%).
Also of interest is that Prompton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.42% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Because of many things, Prompton is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Prompton a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Prompton has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Prompton’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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, Prompton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Prompton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
The population of Prompton overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Prompton, 24.54% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Prompton in 2022 was $40,764, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $163,056 for a family of four.
The people who call Prompton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prompton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Prompton include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Prompton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 1.0% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% 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 Prompton are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 41.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.8%), and 11.4% 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 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Prompton, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.9%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.