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Lyndora, PA

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Overview


Lyndora is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,079 people and just one neighborhood, Lyndora is the 626th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Lyndora is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lyndora is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyndora who work in food service (12.44%), sales jobs (9.64%), and healthcare (9.42%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Lyndora doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Lyndora citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.21% of adults in Lyndora have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lyndora in 2022 was $32,341, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,364 for a family of four. However, Lyndora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lyndora is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Lyndora, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 5.1% have Ukrainian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Lyndora are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% of U.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, 39.9% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lyndora, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (13.9%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (9.5%), 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 (41.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (9.7%) . 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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