Montandon is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 873 people and just one neighborhood, Montandon is the 859th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Montandon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.23% of Montandon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Montandon is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montandon who work in food service (11.14%), maintenance occupations (10.62%), and sales jobs (8.29%).
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Montandon 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 Montandon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) Montandon 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. Montandon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Montandon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Montandon may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Montandon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Montandon with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.56% of adults in Montandon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Montandon in 2022 was $28,754, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,016 for a family of four. However, Montandon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Montandon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montandon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montandon include German, English, Italian, French, and Northern European.
The most common language spoken in Montandon 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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.2% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Montandon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 37.0% 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 29.3% 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 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.1%).
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 Montandon, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (41.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.