Gallitzin is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,508 people and just one neighborhood, Gallitzin is the 713th largest community in Pennsylvania. Gallitzin has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Gallitzin is a blue-collar town, with 35.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gallitzin is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gallitzin who work in healthcare suport services (14.65%), office and administrative support (12.69%), and sales jobs (7.86%).
Being a small borough, Gallitzin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Gallitzin are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.06% of adults in Gallitzin have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Gallitzin in 2022 was $27,847, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,388 for a family of four. However, Gallitzin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gallitzin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gallitzin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gallitzin include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Gallitzin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 1.5% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 16.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Gallitzin are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.9% 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, 30.8% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 18.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Polish and Italian.
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 Gallitzin, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (14.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (8.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.