South Fork - Summerhill is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,889 people and just one neighborhood, South Fork - Summerhill is the 395th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in South Fork - Summerhill was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, South Fork - Summerhill is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, South Fork - Summerhill is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Fork - Summerhill who work in healthcare (9.93%), office and administrative support (9.31%), and healthcare suport services (8.13%).
Also of interest is that South Fork - Summerhill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, South Fork - Summerhill’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
In terms of college education, the citizens of South Fork - Summerhill rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.70% of adults 25 and older in South Fork - Summerhill have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in South Fork - Summerhill in 2022 was $30,988, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,952 for a family of four. However, South Fork - Summerhill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call South Fork - Summerhill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of South Fork - Summerhill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in South Fork - Summerhill include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in South Fork - Summerhill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
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 South Fork - Summerhill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 36.8% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% 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 97.5% 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 South Fork - Summerhill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% 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, 34.9% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.2%).
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 South Fork - Summerhill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (36.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.9%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.