Wyalusing is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 612 people and just one neighborhood, Wyalusing is the 942nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Wyalusing was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Wyalusing is a blue-collar town, with 43.08% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wyalusing is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wyalusing who work in sales jobs (12.31%), maintenance occupations (11.54%), and office and administrative support (5.38%).
It is a fairly quiet borough 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!) Wyalusing 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. Wyalusing has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wyalusing than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wyalusing may be for you.
Residents of the borough have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.61 minutes getting to work every day.
Wyalusing 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.
The percentage of adults in Wyalusing with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.68% of adults in Wyalusing have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wyalusing in 2022 was $28,707, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,828 for a family of four. However, Wyalusing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wyalusing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wyalusing residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wyalusing include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Wyalusing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wyalusing, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 3.9% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Wyalusing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.5% of U.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, 38.4% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 8.5% 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 99.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wyalusing, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.6%) 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 (10.5%) and 8.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.