Southwest Greensburg is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,187 people and just one neighborhood, Southwest Greensburg is the 609th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some boroughs, Southwest Greensburg isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Southwest Greensburg are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Southwest Greensburg is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Southwest Greensburg who work in sales jobs (15.17%), food service (12.73%), and office and administrative support (12.64%).
Southwest Greensburg is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Southwest Greensburg who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.34% of adults in Southwest Greensburg have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Southwest Greensburg in 2022 was $37,820, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,280 for a family of four. However, Southwest Greensburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Southwest Greensburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Southwest Greensburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Southwest Greensburg include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Southwest Greensburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Southwest Greensburg, 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 Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.6% have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.2% 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 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Southwest Greensburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.8% 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, 32.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.5%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 98.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Greek.
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 Southwest Greensburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (22.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (15.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.3%), among others.
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 (49.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.