Biglerville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,232 people and just one neighborhood, Biglerville is the 789th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Biglerville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Biglerville is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Biglerville who work in office and administrative support (18.73%), sales jobs (8.79%), and management occupations (8.14%).
Also of interest is that Biglerville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Biglerville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small borough, Biglerville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Biglerville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.69% of the adults in Biglerville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Biglerville in 2022 was $29,239, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,956 for a family of four. However, Biglerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Biglerville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Biglerville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Biglerville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Biglerville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.94% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Biglerville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Biglerville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Biglerville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 33.7% have German ancestry.
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 Biglerville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.3% 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 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 15.7% 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 90.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Biglerville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (37.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.