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Shiremanstown, PA

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Overview


Shiremanstown is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,649 people and just one neighborhood, Shiremanstown is the 700th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Shiremanstown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shiremanstown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shiremanstown is a borough of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shiremanstown who work in business and financial occupations (14.29%), office and administrative support (12.33%), and management occupations (9.91%).

Also of interest is that Shiremanstown 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 Shiremanstown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.86% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Shiremanstown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Shiremanstown is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.57% of adults in Shiremanstown have a college degree.

The per capita income in Shiremanstown in 2022 was $37,704, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,816 for a family of four. However, Shiremanstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Shiremanstown is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Shiremanstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shiremanstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shiremanstown include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Shiremanstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 25.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Shiremanstown 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 86.1% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania. If you are considering retiring to Pennsylvania, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry and 35.3% have German ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Shiremanstown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.7% 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, 45.6% 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 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Shiremanstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (43.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (71.1%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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