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Southmont, PA

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Overview


Southmont is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 503 people and just one neighborhood, Southmont is the 639th largest community in Pennsylvania. Southmont has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Southmont isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Southmont are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Southmont is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Southmont who work in management occupations (11.84%), office and administrative support (11.63%), and food service (7.65%).

Of important note, Southmont is also a borough of artists. Southmont has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Southmont’s character.

Also of interest is that Southmont 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 Southmont telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.46% 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

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, Southmont has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Southmont a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small borough, Southmont does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Southmont is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 45.63% of adults in Southmont have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Southmont in 2022 was $45,751, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $183,004 for a family of four. However, Southmont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Southmont is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Southmont, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 6.4% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Pennsylvania.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.5% have Lebanese ancestry.

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 Southmont are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 60.2% of America'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, 51.6% 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 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Southmont, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (21.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (7.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (42.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (5.6%) . 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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