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Clark, PA

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Overview

Clark is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 559 people and just one neighborhood, Clark is the 957th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Clark is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clark is a borough of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clark who work in management occupations (17.41%), healthcare (15.63%), and business and financial occupations (12.95%).

Also of interest is that Clark has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Clark telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.20% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Clark is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Clark a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Clark has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Clark’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Clark 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 education level of Clark citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.05% of adults in Clark have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Clark in 2022 was $45,761, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $183,044 for a family of four. However, Clark contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Clark home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clark residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clark include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and Slovak.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 87.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 4.4% have Slovak ancestry.

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 Clark are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.7% 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 79.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 42.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.7%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.1%).

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 Clark, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (22.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (22.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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