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Imler, PA

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Overview


Imler is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,373 people and just one neighborhood, Imler is the 450th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Imler is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.42% of the Imler workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Imler is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Imler who work in office and administrative support (10.10%), healthcare (9.92%), and management occupations (8.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Imler has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Imler a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Imler is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Imler with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.25% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Imler in 2022 was $32,229, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,916 for a family of four. However, Imler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Imler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Imler residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Imler include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Imler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Imler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.2% 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 64.1% of America's neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 37.1% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).

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 Imler, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report English roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (14.4%) . 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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