Broad Top is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 360 people and just one neighborhood, Broad Top is the 1032nd largest community in Pennsylvania.
Broad Top is a blue-collar town, with 40.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Broad Top is a borough of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Broad Top who work in sales jobs (8.47%), art, media, and design (8.05%), and healthcare (7.20%).
Of important note, Broad Top is also a borough of artists. Broad Top has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Broad Top’s character.
Overall, Broad Top’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Broad Top is worth considering.
One downside of living in Broad Top is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Broad Top, the average commute to work is 44.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Broad Top 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 people in Broad Top with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Broad Top in 2022 was $33,849, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $135,396 for a family of four. However, Broad Top contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Broad Top home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Broad Top residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Broad Top include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Broad Top is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, 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 91.0% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Broad Top are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.2% 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, 35.8% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 12.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.8%).
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 Broad Top, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.8%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.4%) 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 (9.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.