Manorville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 374 people and just one neighborhood, Manorville is the 1028th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Manorville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, Manorville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Manorville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Manorville is a borough of service providers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Manorville who work in food service (20.11%), healthcare (11.41%), and management occupations (9.78%).
It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Manorville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Manorville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Manorville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Manorville may be for you.
As is often the case in a small borough, Manorville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Manorville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.55% of adults 25 and older in Manorville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Manorville in 2022 was $34,769, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $139,076 for a family of four. However, Manorville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Manorville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Manorville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Manorville include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Manorville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Manorville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Manorville is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in PA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania. If you are considering retiring to Pennsylvania, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 3.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.6% 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 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Manorville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.7% 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, 36.1% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.1%), and 13.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (6.6%).
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 Manorville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.