Shartlesville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 404 people and just one neighborhood, Shartlesville is the 1021st largest community in Pennsylvania. Shartlesville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Shartlesville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shartlesville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shartlesville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shartlesville who work in office and administrative support (18.67%), law enforcement and fire fighting (18.07%), and management occupations (8.43%).
Also of interest is that Shartlesville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 29.63% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
The town 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, Shartlesville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shartlesville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Shartlesville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Shartlesville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.52% of adults in Shartlesville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shartlesville in 2022 was $49,598, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $198,392 for a family of four. However, Shartlesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shartlesville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shartlesville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Shartlesville include German, English, Lithuanian, Italian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Shartlesville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.
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 Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 33.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 3.5% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Shartlesville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.9% 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 61.9% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.9% 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.6%), and 13.5% 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 97.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Shartlesville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.