Hustontown is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,057 people and just one neighborhood, Hustontown is the 297th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Hustontown is a blue-collar town, with 39.80% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hustontown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hustontown who work in office and administrative support (8.81%), management occupations (8.08%), and healthcare (7.95%).
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!) Hustontown 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. Hustontown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hustontown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hustontown may be for you.
One downside of living in Hustontown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.64 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Hustontown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Hustontown rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.44% of adults 25 and older in Hustontown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Hustontown in 2022 was $33,052, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,208 for a family of four. However, Hustontown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hustontown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hustontown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hustontown include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Hustontown 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.8% 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 Hustontown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.2% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.5%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.1%).
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 Hustontown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (11.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.