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Venango, PA

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Overview


Venango is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 207 people and just one neighborhood, Venango is the 1085th largest community in Pennsylvania. Venango has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Venango isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Venango are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Venango is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Venango who work in office and administrative support (23.01%), teaching (10.62%), and community and social services (8.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Venango is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Venango a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Venango has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Venango’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

As is often the case in a small borough, Venango doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Venango is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.59% of adults in Venango have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Venango in 2022 was $30,089, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,356 for a family of four.

The people who call Venango home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Venango residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Venango include German, Polish, Irish, English, and European.

The most common language spoken in Venango is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Venango, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 11.6% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.2% 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Venango are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% 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 59.1% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.6% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Venango, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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