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Ronks, PA

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Overview


Ronks is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 391 people and just one neighborhood, Ronks is the 1024th largest community in Pennsylvania. Ronks has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Ronks real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Ronks house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Ronks, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.79% of Ronks’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Ronks is a town of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ronks who work in business and financial occupations (14.95%), office and administrative support (14.02%), and food service (13.08%).

Also of interest is that Ronks has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Ronks is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Ronks really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Ronks perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Ronks 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 education level of Ronks citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.43% of adults in Ronks have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ronks in 2018 was $25,679, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,716 for a family of four. However, Ronks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ronks is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ronks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ronks residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ronks include Irish, Polish, German, Lithuanian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Ronks is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and French Creole.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Ronks, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 33.6% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% 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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ronks are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.3% 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 63.7% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 38.8% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 81.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, German/Yiddish and Langs. of India.

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 Ronks, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Swiss roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (7.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.0%), among others. In addition, 10.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (67.0%) 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 (21.6%) . 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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