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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 very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Venango really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Venango perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Venango 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.

Demographics

The education level of Venango citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.59% of adults in Venango have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Venango in 2018 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

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 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 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 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

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 (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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