Because of many things, Pennellville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Pennellville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pennellville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pennellville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pennellville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pennellville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pennellville may be for you.
The percentage of people in Pennellville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.79% of adults in Pennellville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pennellville in 2022 was $37,361, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,444 for a family of four. However, Pennellville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pennellville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pennellville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pennellville include English, Italian, German, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Pennellville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
