The following statistics are as of 2011:

✓ The median age for Pennsylvania’s Irish population was 37.6 years. Overall, the median age of the population was 40.3 years.

✓ Households of Irish ancestry in Pennsylvania reported higher median income than the total state population, $57,489 compared with $50,228 overall.

✓ Nationally, Irish households had a median income of $57,319.

✓ In Pennsylvania, a smaller proportion of Irish households utilized cash or public assistance income and/or food stamps/SNAP benefits than the total population: 12.7 percent of Irish households reported such benefits versus 16.4 percent for the total population.

✓✓ Irish Pennsylvanians also had lower rates of poverty (9.7 percent compared to 13.8 percent for the overall population).

Nationally, people of Irish ancestry had a poverty rate of 10.6 percent.

✓ A larger proportion of Pennsylvanians of Irish ancestry earned a bachelor’s degree or higher than the population of those age 25 and older in the Commonwealth in general (31.1 percent compared to 27 percent).

✓ On the other end of the educational spectrum, Irish Pennsylvanians were much less likely to lack a high school diploma (6.9 percent) than the total population (11.4 percent).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau; 2011 American Community Survey 1