McKean is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 478 people and just one neighborhood, McKean is the 993rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in McKean was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local McKean economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in McKean, where the median household income is $51,094.00.
Unlike some boroughs, McKean isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in McKean are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, McKean is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in McKean who work in office and administrative support (13.89%), management occupations (12.50%), and teaching (9.72%).
Also of interest is that McKean has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in McKean telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.26% 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.
Being a small borough, McKean does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of McKean are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.94% of adults in McKean having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in McKean in 2022 was $31,152, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,608 for a family of four. However, McKean contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McKean home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKean residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McKean include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in McKean is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 13.2% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 McKean are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.6% of U.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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 16.7% 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 99.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 McKean, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.5%), among others.
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 (56.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.2%) 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.