Hooversville - Stoystown is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,707 people and just one neighborhood, Hooversville - Stoystown is the 533rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Hooversville - Stoystown has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Hooversville - Stoystown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hooversville - Stoystown is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hooversville - Stoystown who work in office and administrative support (16.05%), sales jobs (10.75%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.84%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.11% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Because of many things, Hooversville - Stoystown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Hooversville - Stoystown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Hooversville - Stoystown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Hooversville - Stoystown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Hooversville - Stoystown 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.
The percentage of people in Hooversville - Stoystown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.96% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hooversville - Stoystown in 2022 was $27,834, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,336 for a family of four. However, Hooversville - Stoystown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hooversville - Stoystown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hooversville - Stoystown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hooversville - Stoystown include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Hooversville - Stoystown 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 German and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.0% have Hungarian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% 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 Hooversville - Stoystown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.8% 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 59.0% of America'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, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 18.1% 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 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Hooversville - Stoystown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (46.0% 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.