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Girardville, PA

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Overview


Girardville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,315 people and just one neighborhood, Girardville is the 762nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Girardville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Girardville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Girardville is a borough of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Girardville who work in management occupations (14.77%), healthcare suport services (12.45%), and healthcare (10.34%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Being a small borough, Girardville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Girardville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.02% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Girardville in 2022 was $33,232, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,928 for a family of four. However, Girardville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Girardville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 24.3% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 11.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 33.8% have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Girardville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 43.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 16.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Girardville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (33.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.9%), along with some Lithuanian ancestry residents (11.9%), 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 (41.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (5.7%) . 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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