Wesleyville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,148 people and just one neighborhood, Wesleyville is the 469th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Wesleyville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wesleyville is a borough of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wesleyville who work in maintenance occupations (12.37%), sales jobs (11.24%), and healthcare suport services (9.92%).
Also of interest is that Wesleyville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The percentage of adults in Wesleyville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.29% of the adults in Wesleyville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wesleyville in 2022 was $24,953, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,812 for a family of four. However, Wesleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wesleyville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Wesleyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wesleyville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wesleyville include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Wesleyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Chinese.
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.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.8% of all American neighborhoods.
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, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 11.4% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% 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 Wesleyville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.8% of U.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, 39.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.2%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Italian (13.2%).
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 Wesleyville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.