Newmanstown - Richland is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,877 people and just one neighborhood, Newmanstown - Richland is the 246th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Newmanstown - Richland was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Newmanstown - Richland is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Newmanstown - Richland is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newmanstown - Richland who work in office and administrative support (17.50%), management occupations (10.51%), and healthcare (7.25%).
Also of interest is that Newmanstown - Richland has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Newmanstown - Richland telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.76% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Overall, Newmanstown - Richland’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
As is often the case in a small town, Newmanstown - Richland doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Newmanstown - Richland is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.44% of adults 25 and older in Newmanstown - Richland have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Newmanstown - Richland in 2022 was $39,442, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,768 for a family of four.
The people who call Newmanstown - Richland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newmanstown - Richland residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Newmanstown - Richland include German, Irish, English, Swiss, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Newmanstown - Richland is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and German/Yiddish.
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 Newmanstown - Richland, 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 Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 37.4% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% 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 Newmanstown - Richland are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.3% 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 63.7% of America'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, 35.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.4%), and 16.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 89.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Russian.
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 Newmanstown - Richland, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
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 (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.