Waymart is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,297 people and just one neighborhood, Waymart is the 767th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some boroughs, Waymart isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Waymart are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Waymart is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Waymart who work in food service (10.82%), sales jobs (9.65%), and management occupations (8.47%).
The overall crime rate in Waymart 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.
It is a fairly quiet borough 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!) Waymart 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. Waymart has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Waymart than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Waymart may be for you.
Being a small borough, Waymart does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Waymart is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.16% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Waymart in 2022 was $23,962, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,848 for a family of four. However, Waymart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Waymart is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Waymart home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Waymart residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Waymart include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Waymart 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 Waymart, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.5% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry.
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 Waymart are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.9% 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 53.4% 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, 34.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).
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 Waymart, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Polish roots (8.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.6%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.9%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.