Long Pond is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 6,129 people and two associated neighborhoods, Long Pond is the 220th largest community in Pennsylvania.
A relatively large number of people in Long Pond telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.68% 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.
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, Long Pond has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Long Pond a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Long Pond, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.43 minutes every day commuting to work.
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.