Wattsburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 347 people and just one neighborhood, Wattsburg is the 1039th largest community in Pennsylvania. Wattsburg has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in Wattsburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.75% of Wattsburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wattsburg is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wattsburg who work in office and administrative support (15.63%), maintenance occupations (8.75%), and management occupations (7.50%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.25% 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.
One downside of living in Wattsburg, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.27 minutes every day commuting to work.
Wattsburg is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Wattsburg with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.97% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wattsburg in 2022 was $22,146, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,584 for a family of four. However, Wattsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wattsburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.11% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Wattsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wattsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wattsburg include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Wattsburg 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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.8%) than in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.3% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.4% 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 97.8% 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 Wattsburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% 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 58.7% 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, 40.1% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 99.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include 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 Wattsburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (64.4%) 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 (23.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.