Marion Heights is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 551 people and just one neighborhood, Marion Heights is the 962nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Marion Heights has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Marion Heights is a blue-collar town, with 35.98% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Marion Heights is a borough of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marion Heights who work in office and administrative support (15.48%), healthcare (10.46%), and healthcare suport services (7.53%).
Also of interest is that Marion Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Marion Heights is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Marion Heights have a very low rate of college education: just 9.02% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Marion Heights in 2022 was $24,025, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,100 for a family of four. However, Marion Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Marion Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marion Heights residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Marion Heights include Polish, Irish, German, Italian, and Slovak.
The most common language spoken in Marion Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Marion Heights, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 29.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 21.8% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 22.5% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Marion Heights are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.4% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 14.0% 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 99.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Marion Heights, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (21.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report German roots (18.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (16.3%), along with some Lithuanian ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.