Long Pond is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 6,084 people and two associated neighborhoods, Long Pond is the 220th largest community in Pennsylvania.Long Pond is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Long Pond is a town of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Long Pond who work in architecture and engineering (10.66%), maintenance occupations (9.57%), and teaching (8.44%). A relatively large number of people in Long Pond telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.68% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Long Pond has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Long Pond has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Long Pond than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Long Pond may be for you.In terms of college education, Long Pond is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.28% of adults 25 and older in Long Pond have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Long Pond in 2022 was $29,117, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,468 for a family of four. However, Long Pond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Long Pond is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Long Pond home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Long Pond residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Long Pond also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.99% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Long Pond include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Dutch. The most common language spoken in Long Pond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
