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Mount Pocono, PA

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Overview


Mount Pocono is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 614 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Pocono is the 482nd largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Mount Pocono is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Pocono is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Pocono who work in office and administrative support (20.55%), food service (7.84%), and management occupations (7.58%).

Also of interest is that Mount Pocono has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Mount Pocono telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.04% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mount Pocono has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Pocono a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Mount Pocono, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.82 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The education level of Mount Pocono citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.65% of adults in Mount Pocono have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mount Pocono in 2018 was $33,689, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,756 for a family of four. However, Mount Pocono contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mount Pocono is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Mount Pocono home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Pocono residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mount Pocono also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.15% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Pocono include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and European.

In addition, Mount Pocono has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.46%).

The most common language spoken in Mount Pocono is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

Length of Commute

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. 28.8% 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 99.9% of all neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 29.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 4.6% have Dominican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.4% 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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Mount Pocono are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.5% 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.

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, 32.0% 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 29.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 17.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 60.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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 Mount Pocono, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (6.0%), among others. In addition, 19.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (33.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (28.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (60.4%) 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 (29.5%) . 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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