McAlisterville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 920 people and just one neighborhood, McAlisterville is the 848th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McAlisterville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.97% of the McAlisterville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McAlisterville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McAlisterville who work in office and administrative support (18.97%), healthcare suport services (7.59%), and food service (6.55%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.52% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
McAlisterville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In McAlisterville, just 7.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in McAlisterville in 2022 was $27,917, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,668 for a family of four. However, McAlisterville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McAlisterville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McAlisterville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McAlisterville include German, English, Pennsylvania German, Swiss, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in McAlisterville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 5.9% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 24.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 McAlisterville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 37.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 17.6% in executive, management, and professional 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 72.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish and Italian.
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 McAlisterville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.1%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Yugoslav ancestry (5.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.5%) 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 (14.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.