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Jessup, PA

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Overview


Jessup is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,488 people and just one neighborhood, Jessup is the 338th largest community in Pennsylvania. Jessup 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, Jessup isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Jessup are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jessup is a borough of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jessup who work in sales jobs (11.64%), healthcare (10.01%), and management occupations (8.81%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Jessup who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.43% of adults in Jessup have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Jessup in 2018 was $31,237, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,948 for a family of four. However, Jessup contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Jessup is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Jessup home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jessup residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jessup include Irish, Italian, Polish, German, and Russian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 24.1% have Polish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 23.5% 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 99.9% 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 Jessup are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.7% 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, 37.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.1%), and 9.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

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 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Jessup, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (25.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (24.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (15.0%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (10.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (11.4%) . 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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