Slippery Rock is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,558 people and three associated neighborhoods, Slippery Rock is the 483rd largest community in Pennsylvania.Slippery Rock is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 87.12% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Slippery Rock is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Slippery Rock who work in sales jobs (18.25%), food service (11.78%), and office and administrative support (7.99%). Also of interest is that Slippery Rock has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Slippery Rock telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.04% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Slippery Rock is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Slippery Rock area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Slippery Rock maintain a good economy. Being a small borough, Slippery Rock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Slippery Rock are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.87% of adults in Slippery Rock have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Slippery Rock in 2022 was $26,953, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,812 for a family of four. However, Slippery Rock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Slippery Rock also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.22% of its population below the federal poverty line.Slippery Rock is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Slippery Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Slippery Rock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Slippery Rock include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Slippery Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
