It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Long Pond 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. Long Pond has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Long Pond than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Long Pond may be for you.
In Long Pond, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.43 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
In Long Pond, just 12.76% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Long Pond in 2022 was $29,817, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $119,268 for a family of four. However, Long Pond contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Long Pond is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Long Pond home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Long Pond residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Long Pond also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.38% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Long Pond include Irish, German, Italian, Dutch, and English.
The most common language spoken in Long Pond is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
