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Hyde Park, PA

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Overview


Hyde Park is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 501 people and just one neighborhood, Hyde Park is the 977th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hyde Park is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.51% of the Hyde Park workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hyde Park is a borough of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hyde Park who work in healthcare (12.70%), management occupations (8.73%), and office and administrative support (6.75%).

Of important note, Hyde Park is also a borough of artists. Hyde Park has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Hyde Park’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small borough, Hyde Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Hyde Park citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.99% of adults 25 and older in Hyde Park have a college degree.

The per capita income in Hyde Park in 2018 was $30,953, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,812 for a family of four. However, Hyde Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hyde Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hyde Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hyde Park include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and Slovak.

The most common language spoken in Hyde Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.9% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Hyde Park are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.5% of U.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, 35.0% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 18.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 99.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Hyde Park, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (14.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (13.2%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (30.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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