Dayton is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 544 people and just one neighborhood, Dayton is the 965th largest community in Pennsylvania. Dayton has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Dayton is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.60% of the Dayton workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Dayton is a borough of managers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dayton who work in management occupations (18.56%), maintenance occupations (13.40%), and business and financial occupations (6.19%).
The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Dayton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dayton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Dayton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dayton, the average commute to work is 35.23 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Dayton 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 rate of college-level education in Dayton is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.59% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Dayton in 2022 was $22,497, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,988 for a family of four. However, Dayton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Dayton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dayton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dayton include German, Irish, Polish, Dutch, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Dayton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Dayton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.4% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Dayton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% 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, 43.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.5%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.7% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (7.2%).
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 Dayton, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (14.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.