Newry is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 231 people and just one neighborhood, Newry is the 1077th largest community in Pennsylvania. Newry has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Newry is a blue-collar town, with 41.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Newry is a borough of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newry who work in sales jobs (9.90%), food service (8.91%), and personal care services (7.92%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.81% 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.
It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Newry has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Newry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Newry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Newry may be for you.
As is often the case in a small borough, Newry doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Newry with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.38% of adults in Newry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Newry in 2022 was $26,012, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,048 for a family of four. However, Newry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Newry is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Newry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newry residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Newry include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and French.
The most common language spoken in Newry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Other Asian languages.
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.
Our research reveals that 88.4% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 46.9% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 28.4% have Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.3% 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 95.3% 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 Newry are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.7% 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 64.9% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 45.2% 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 19.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 16.4% 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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Chinese.
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 Newry, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (28.4%), and residents who report English roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.6%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 (38.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.