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Ronco, PA

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Overview


Ronco is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 209 people and just one neighborhood, Ronco is the 1086th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Ronco is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ronco is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ronco who work in healthcare suport services (100.00%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Ronco’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ronco has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ronco a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Ronco is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ronco, the average commute to work is 37.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Ronco is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Ronco is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Ronco has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Ronco 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 overall education level of Ronco is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.89% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ronco in 2022 was $56,320, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $225,280 for a family of four. However, Ronco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ronco is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ronco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ronco residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ronco include Other Subsaharan African, Serbian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

Ronco also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 26.67%.

The most common language spoken in Ronco is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 96.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 6.2% have Scots-Irish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.4% 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 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ronco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% 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, 31.0% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.6%), and 19.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

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 98.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Ronco, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.0%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (50.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (96.9%) 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.


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