Heilwood is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 318 people and just one neighborhood, Heilwood is the 1051st largest community in Pennsylvania. Heilwood has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Heilwood is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.88% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Heilwood is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Heilwood who work in office and administrative support (21.18%), management occupations (21.18%), and architecture and engineering (10.59%).
Heilwood is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Heilwood’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in Heilwood, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.73 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Heilwood does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Heilwood citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.27% of adults in Heilwood have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Heilwood in 2022 was $34,299, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,196 for a family of four. However, Heilwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Heilwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Heilwood residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Heilwood include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Slovak.
The most common language spoken in Heilwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 7.6% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% 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 96.9% 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 Heilwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.5% 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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.2%), and 16.3% 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 97.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Heilwood, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report English roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (7.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.0%) 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 (12.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.