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Vanderbilt - Dawson, PA

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Overview


Vanderbilt - Dawson is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,376 people and just one neighborhood, Vanderbilt - Dawson is the largest community in Pennsylvania. Vanderbilt - Dawson has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Vanderbilt - Dawson is a blue-collar town, with 36.29% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Vanderbilt - Dawson is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Vanderbilt - Dawson who work in office and administrative support (11.79%), healthcare (10.41%), and healthcare suport services (7.66%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Vanderbilt - Dawson has a very low overall level of education: only 7.13% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Vanderbilt - Dawson in 2022 was $28,051, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,204 for a family of four. However, Vanderbilt - Dawson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Vanderbilt - Dawson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Vanderbilt - Dawson residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Vanderbilt - Dawson include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Vanderbilt - Dawson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 22.5% have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Vanderbilt - Dawson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.9% of U.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, 36.3% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 17.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Vanderbilt - Dawson, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.5%), and residents who report English roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (11.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (37.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (9.3%) and 5.4% 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.


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