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Sinking Spring, PA

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Overview


Sinking Spring is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,270 people and just one neighborhood, Sinking Spring is the 351st largest community in Pennsylvania.

Sinking Spring real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Sinking Spring house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Sinking Spring isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sinking Spring are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sinking Spring is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sinking Spring who work in office and administrative support (15.41%), sales jobs (13.19%), and management occupations (11.58%).

Also of interest is that Sinking Spring has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.93% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The education level of Sinking Spring citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.66% of adults in Sinking Spring have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sinking Spring in 2018 was $41,286, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,144 for a family of four. However, Sinking Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sinking Spring is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Sinking Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sinking Spring residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Sinking Spring also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.82% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sinking Spring include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

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

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.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 34.0% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Puerto Rican and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Puerto Rican ancestry and 0.9% have Belgian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Sinking Spring are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.4% of U.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, 41.4% 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.0%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Sinking Spring, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.8%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (8.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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