Jessup is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,488 people and just one neighborhood, Jessup is the 338th largest community in Pennsylvania. Jessup has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Jessup is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jessup is a borough of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jessup who work in sales jobs (11.64%), healthcare (10.01%), and management occupations (8.81%).
Jessup is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Jessup is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.43% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Jessup in 2022 was $31,237, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,948 for a family of four. However, Jessup contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jessup is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Jessup home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jessup residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jessup include Irish, Italian, Polish, German, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Jessup is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 24.1% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 23.5% 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 99.9% 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 Jessup are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 37.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.1%), and 9.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Jessup, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (25.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (24.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (15.0%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (10.4%), 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 (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.