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Chicora, PA

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Overview


Chicora is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 893 people and just one neighborhood, Chicora is the 849th largest community in Pennsylvania. Chicora has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Chicora isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chicora are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chicora is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chicora who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), healthcare suport services (9.98%), and management occupations (9.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Chicora is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

One downside of living in Chicora, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.18 minutes every day commuting to work.

Chicora 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Chicora who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.09% of the adults in Chicora have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Chicora in 2022 was $38,607, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $154,428 for a family of four. However, Chicora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Chicora, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 4.8% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.6% 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 97.2% 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 Chicora are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.8% 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 61.5% 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, 33.4% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 13.8% 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 98.6% 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 Chicora, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 (41.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (6.2%) . 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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