Ellport is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,091 people and just one neighborhood, Ellport is the 813th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Ellport is a blue-collar town, with 44.15% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ellport is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ellport who work in sales jobs (10.06%), office and administrative support (8.01%), and management occupations (7.60%).
In terms of college education, Ellport is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.57% of adults 25 and older in Ellport have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ellport in 2022 was $34,455, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,820 for a family of four. However, Ellport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ellport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ellport residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ellport include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Ellport is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Italian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Italian ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Ellport are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.0% 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, 37.3% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.
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 Ellport, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (26.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.1%), among others.
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 (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.