Trainer is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,954 people and just one neighborhood, Trainer is the 652nd largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Trainer, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.78% of Trainer’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Trainer is a borough of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Trainer who work in sales jobs (8.52%), healthcare suport services (8.15%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (5.35%).
In Trainer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.46 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
Even though Trainer is a smaller borough, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly a streetcar for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.
The percentage of adults in Trainer with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.73% of adults in Trainer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Trainer in 2022 was $28,848, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,392 for a family of four. However, Trainer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Trainer is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Trainer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Trainer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Trainer include Polish, Irish, Ukrainian, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Trainer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (40.1%) than in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 54.4% 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 0.9% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 48.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.6% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 19.3% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.1% 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 99.2% 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 Trainer are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 42.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.7% 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, 48.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.4%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (15.1%).
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 Trainer, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (19.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Ukrainian roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.4%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (50.8%) 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 (40.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.