Sugar Notch is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 997 people and just one neighborhood, Sugar Notch is the 832nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Sugar Notch has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Sugar Notch is a blue-collar town, with 37.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Sugar Notch is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sugar Notch who work in office and administrative support (12.93%), business and financial occupations (9.30%), and sales jobs (6.35%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.90% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Sugar Notch is worth considering.
The percentage of adults in Sugar Notch with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.30% of adults in Sugar Notch have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sugar Notch in 2022 was $30,737, 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 $122,948 for a family of four. However, Sugar Notch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sugar Notch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sugar Notch residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sugar Notch include Polish, Irish, German, Italian, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Sugar Notch is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Russian.
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.
Many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the neighborhood could be your paradise. With 30.4% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 3.2% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 4.0% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.5% 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 97.7% 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 Sugar Notch are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.2% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.5%).
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 Sugar Notch, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (31.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (25.7%), and residents who report German roots (19.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (12.6%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 (46.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.