Black Lick is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,268 people and just one neighborhood, Black Lick is the 778th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Black Lick, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.42% of Black Lick’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Black Lick is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Black Lick who work in maintenance occupations (16.35%), sales jobs (15.09%), and office and administrative support (7.55%).
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!) Black Lick 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. Black Lick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Black Lick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Black Lick may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Black Lick spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.59 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small town, Black Lick does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Black Lick has a very low overall level of education: only 7.34% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Black Lick in 2022 was $25,248, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,992 for a family of four. However, Black Lick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Black Lick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Black Lick residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Black Lick include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Black Lick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages 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 Slovak and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.9% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Black Lick are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% 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 50.3% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 34.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (28.1%), and 8.8% 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 98.2% 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 Black Lick, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.1%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.4%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.