Shinglehouse is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,070 people and just one neighborhood, Shinglehouse is the 809th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Shinglehouse, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.93% of Shinglehouse’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Shinglehouse is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shinglehouse who work in office and administrative support (10.30%), healthcare (8.01%), and community and social services (7.78%).
Overall, Shinglehouse’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Shinglehouse is worth considering.
Shinglehouse 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 adults in Shinglehouse who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.02% of the adults in Shinglehouse have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shinglehouse in 2022 was $29,086, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,344 for a family of four. However, Shinglehouse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shinglehouse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shinglehouse residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Shinglehouse include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Shinglehouse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Shinglehouse, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of 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 Shinglehouse are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% 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, 34.5% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).
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 Shinglehouse, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (6.9%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.