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Marion, PA

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Overview


Marion is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 851 people and just one neighborhood, Marion is the 867th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Marion, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.69% of Marion’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Marion is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Marion who work in office and administrative support (17.34%), maintenance occupations (13.96%), and business and financial occupations (8.56%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Marion is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Marion 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 town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Marion has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Marion’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Marion is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Marion are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.26% of adults in Marion having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Marion in 2022 was $22,633, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,532 for a family of four. However, Marion contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Marion home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Marion residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Marion include German, French, English, Scottish, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Marion is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and French Creole.

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

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 2.3% have Welsh 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 Marion are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.1% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.7%), and 17.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.3%).

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 Marion, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report French roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (58.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (19.6%) . 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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