Allentown is a very small borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 1,733 people and just one neighborhood, Allentown is the 440th largest community in New Jersey.
Allentown is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 88.46% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Allentown is a borough of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Allentown who work in office and administrative support (13.33%), teaching (11.84%), and healthcare (8.66%).
Also of interest is that Allentown 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 Allentown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.44% 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.
Allentown is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Allentown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
One downside of living in Allentown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.56 minutes every day commuting to work.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Allentown, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Allentown is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 54.15% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Allentown in 2022 was $52,881, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $211,524 for a family of four.
Allentown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Allentown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Allentown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Allentown include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Allentown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and French.
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 Allentown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 28.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 1.4% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.7% 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 Allentown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 83.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% 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 80.1% 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, 46.9% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.8%), and 11.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households.
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 Allentown, NJ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (28.0%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.7%), and residents who report German roots (17.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (12.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (11.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.