Osceola Mills is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,013 people and just one neighborhood, Osceola Mills is the 819th largest community in Pennsylvania. Osceola Mills has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, Osceola Mills isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Osceola Mills are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Osceola Mills is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Osceola Mills who work in office and administrative support (19.68%), healthcare suport services (9.04%), and maintenance occupations (8.84%).
The borough 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, Osceola Mills has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Osceola Mills a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Osceola Mills is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Osceola Mills, the average commute to work is 30.36 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Osceola Mills 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 education level of Osceola Mills citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.21% of adults 25 and older in Osceola Mills have a college degree.
The per capita income in Osceola Mills in 2022 was $33,720, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,880 for a family of four. However, Osceola Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Osceola Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Osceola Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Osceola Mills include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Osceola Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.3% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian 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 Osceola Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% 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, 35.4% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.6%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.8%).
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 Osceola Mills, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 11.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (18.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.