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South Greensburg, PA

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Overview


South Greensburg is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,122 people and just one neighborhood, South Greensburg is the 623rd largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, South Greensburg isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in South Greensburg are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Greensburg is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Greensburg who work in office and administrative support (13.85%), food service (8.44%), and healthcare (6.84%).

Also of interest is that South Greensburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of South Greensburg are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.96% of adults in South Greensburg having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in South Greensburg in 2022 was $33,188, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,752 for a family of four. However, South Greensburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call South Greensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Greensburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in South Greensburg include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in South Greensburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 26.4% have Italian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Greensburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.1% 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 78.6% 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, 33.1% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in South Greensburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (26.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (15.1%) . 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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