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Noxen, PA

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Overview


Noxen is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 643 people and just one neighborhood, Noxen is the 933rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Noxen has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Noxen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.61% of the Noxen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Noxen is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Noxen who work in office and administrative support (9.17%), sales jobs (8.73%), and healthcare suport services (6.55%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Noxen has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Noxen a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Noxen, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.12 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Noxen doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In Noxen, just 8.72% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Noxen in 2022 was $26,601, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,404 for a family of four. However, Noxen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.3% have Slovak ancestry.

The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Noxen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 30.3% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.2%), and 17.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.

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 Noxen, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report English roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (9.2%), 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 (42.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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