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Harleigh, PA

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Overview


Harleigh is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,050 people and just one neighborhood, Harleigh is the 818th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Harleigh is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.22% of the Harleigh workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Harleigh is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Harleigh who work in art, media, and design (16.40%), management occupations (10.30%), and healthcare suport services (8.90%).

Of important note, Harleigh is also a town of artists. Harleigh has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Harleigh’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Harleigh has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Harleigh a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Harleigh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Harleigh who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.23% of the adults in Harleigh have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harleigh in 2022 was $43,848, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $175,392 for a family of four.

The people who call Harleigh home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harleigh residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Harleigh include Italian, Polish, German, Irish, and Slovak.

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

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.

Real Estate

Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the neighborhood could be your paradise. With 34.9% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 2.5% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.5% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.5% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 36.1% have Italian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.4% 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.

The Neighbors

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 Harleigh are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% 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, 43.5% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Harleigh, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (36.1%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report German roots (15.8%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (14.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.2%) 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.


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