Blandburg is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 348 people and just one neighborhood, Blandburg is the 1041st largest community in Pennsylvania. Blandburg has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Blandburg is a blue-collar town, with 36.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Blandburg is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blandburg who work in sales jobs (19.23%), healthcare suport services (9.23%), and healthcare (8.46%).
Blandburg’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Blandburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Blandburg, the average commute to work is 31.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Blandburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Blandburg has a very low overall level of education: only 8.28% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Blandburg in 2022 was $27,675, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,700 for a family of four. However, Blandburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blandburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blandburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blandburg include German, Italian, English, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Blandburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.0%, which is higher than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 40.9% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% 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 95.0% 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 Blandburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.7% 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, 34.7% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 19.1% 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 99.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Blandburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (40.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (26.6%), and residents who report English roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.