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Lake Winola, PA

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Overview


Lake Winola is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 597 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Winola is the 947th largest community in Pennsylvania. Lake Winola has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lake Winola is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.97% of the Lake Winola workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lake Winola is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Winola who work in maintenance occupations (9.93%), healthcare (8.90%), and teaching (7.19%).

Of important note, Lake Winola is also a town of artists. Lake Winola has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lake Winola’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Lake Winola is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

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!) Lake Winola 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. Lake Winola has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lake Winola than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lake Winola may be for you.

Being a small town, Lake Winola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Lake Winola is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.99% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lake Winola in 2022 was $33,711, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,844 for a family of four. However, Lake Winola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lake Winola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.2% have Lithuanian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lake Winola are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% 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, 38.9% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Lake Winola, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.9%), and residents who report Polish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (11.7%), 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 (54.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.2%) 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 (8.3%) . 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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