Millvale is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,290 people and just one neighborhood, Millvale is the 452nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Millvale has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, Millvale isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Millvale are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Millvale is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millvale who work in food service (12.90%), office and administrative support (11.57%), and sales jobs (8.30%).
Also of interest is that Millvale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In Millvale, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Millvale is a relatively small borough. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
The education level of Millvale citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 24.18% of adults in Millvale have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Millvale in 2018 was $32,803, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,212 for a family of four. However, Millvale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Millvale is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Millvale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millvale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millvale include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Millvale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Serbo-Croatian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Millvale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.7%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 23.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
In addition, if you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 58.7% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 96.1% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 39.2% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Millvale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% 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, 34.7% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.6%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.9%).
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 Millvale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (25.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 (45.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (10.7%) and 7.4% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.