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Parkside, PA

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Overview


Parkside is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,299 people and just one neighborhood, Parkside is the 596th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Parkside isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Parkside are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Parkside is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Parkside who work in management occupations (12.95%), office and administrative support (9.45%), and sales jobs (8.96%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.95% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Parkside who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.35% of adults in Parkside have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Parkside in 2018 was $39,374, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,496 for a family of four. However, Parkside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Parkside is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Parkside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Parkside residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Parkside include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Parkside is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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.

Real Estate

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, 28.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% 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 Parkside are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.4% 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, 40.9% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Parkside, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (21.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (6.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (42.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.4%) 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 (10.1%) . 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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