Martins Creek is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 664 people and just one neighborhood, Martins Creek is the 927th largest community in Pennsylvania. Martins Creek has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Martins Creek real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Martins Creek house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Martins Creek is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.65% of the Martins Creek workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Martins Creek is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Martins Creek who work in sales jobs (22.70%), the sciences (15.68%), and teaching (7.03%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Martins Creek has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Also of interest is that Martins Creek has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.38% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
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!) Martins Creek 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. Martins Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Martins Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Martins Creek may be for you.
Martins Creek 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.
In terms of college education, Martins Creek ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.78% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Martins Creek in 2022 was $35,478, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,912 for a family of four. However, Martins Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Martins Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Martins Creek residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Martins Creek include German, English, Italian, Welsh, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Martins Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
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 Martins Creek, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 2.4% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Martins Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% 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 50.3% 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, 36.4% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 14.2% 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 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Martins Creek, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.