Gallitzin is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,490 people and just one neighborhood, Gallitzin is the 713th largest community in Pennsylvania. Gallitzin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
When you are in Gallitzin, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.50% of Gallitzin’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gallitzin is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gallitzin who work in healthcare suport services (14.65%), office and administrative support (12.69%), and sales jobs (7.86%).
As is often the case in a small borough, Gallitzin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Gallitzin rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.06% of adults 25 and older in Gallitzin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Gallitzin in 2022 was $27,847, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,388 for a family of four. However, Gallitzin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gallitzin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gallitzin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gallitzin include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Gallitzin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 1.5% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.4% 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 99.5% 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 Gallitzin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.9% 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, 30.8% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 18.2% 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 98.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Gallitzin, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (14.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.