Petersburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 412 people and just one neighborhood, Petersburg is the 1013th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Petersburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Petersburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.07% of the Petersburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Petersburg is a borough of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Petersburg who work in sales jobs (15.91%), healthcare suport services (7.95%), and management occupations (7.95%).
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, Petersburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Petersburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Petersburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Petersburg, the average commute to work is 33.66 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Petersburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Petersburg ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.33% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Petersburg in 2022 was $30,235, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,940 for a family of four. However, Petersburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Petersburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Petersburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Petersburg include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Petersburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and West Germanic languages.
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 German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 34.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Petersburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.8% 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, 32.0% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.
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 Petersburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.6%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.