Laceyville - Meshoppen is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,796 people and just one neighborhood, Laceyville - Meshoppen is the 522nd largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Laceyville - Meshoppen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.17% of the Laceyville - Meshoppen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Laceyville - Meshoppen is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laceyville - Meshoppen who work in office and administrative support (9.35%), food service (7.29%), and sales jobs (6.78%).
In Laceyville - Meshoppen, just 11.88% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Laceyville - Meshoppen in 2022 was $33,536, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,144 for a family of four. However, Laceyville - Meshoppen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Laceyville - Meshoppen home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laceyville - Meshoppen residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Laceyville - Meshoppen include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Laceyville - Meshoppen is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 0.6% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.7% 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 98.0% 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 Laceyville - Meshoppen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 43.4% 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 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.7%).
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 Laceyville - Meshoppen, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.1%), 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 (49.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.