South Fork - Summerhill is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,889 people and just one neighborhood, South Fork - Summerhill is the 395th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in South Fork - Summerhill was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
South Fork - Summerhill is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, South Fork - Summerhill is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Fork - Summerhill who work in healthcare (9.93%), office and administrative support (9.31%), and healthcare suport services (8.13%).
Also of interest is that South Fork - Summerhill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, South Fork - Summerhill’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The citizens of South Fork - Summerhill are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.70% of adults in South Fork - Summerhill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in South Fork - Summerhill in 2022 was $30,988, 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 $123,952 for a family of four. However, South Fork - Summerhill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Fork - Summerhill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Fork - Summerhill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in South Fork - Summerhill include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in South Fork - Summerhill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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 South Fork - Summerhill, 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 Slovak and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 36.8% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% 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 South Fork - Summerhill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% of U.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, 34.9% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.2%).
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 South Fork - Summerhill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 (56.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.