Tuscarora is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 375 people and just one neighborhood, Tuscarora is the 1031st largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Tuscarora was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Tuscarora is a blue-collar town, with 46.20% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tuscarora is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tuscarora who work in maintenance occupations (14.62%), food service (6.43%), and business and financial occupations (5.85%).
The overall crime rate in Tuscarora is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Tuscarora is worth considering.
In Tuscarora, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.11 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Tuscarora 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.
In Tuscarora, just 8.70% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Tuscarora in 2022 was $29,501, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,004 for a family of four. However, Tuscarora contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tuscarora home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tuscarora residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Tuscarora include German, Irish, Slovak, Polish, and Lithuanian.
The most common language spoken in Tuscarora 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 Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 3.8% have Lithuanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tuscarora are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.0% of America'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, 35.2% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.2%), and 15.4% 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 96.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Tuscarora, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (31.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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.