Tionesta is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 405 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tionesta is the 1009th largest community in Pennsylvania. Tionesta has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tionesta is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.40% of the Tionesta workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tionesta is a borough of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tionesta who work in food service (11.32%), sales jobs (7.55%), and office and administrative support (6.60%). It is a fairly quiet borough 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!) Tionesta 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. Tionesta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tionesta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tionesta may be for you. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Tionesta spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.50 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the borough are less than they would otherwise be. Being a small borough, Tionesta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Tionesta are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.36% of adults in Tionesta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Tionesta in 2022 was $35,479, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $141,916 for a family of four. However, Tionesta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Tionesta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tionesta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tionesta include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Tionesta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
