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Abbottstown, PA

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Overview


Abbottstown is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,041 people and just one neighborhood, Abbottstown is the 827th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Abbottstown is a blue-collar town, with 35.59% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Abbottstown is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Abbottstown who work in sales jobs (13.29%), office and administrative support (11.94%), and healthcare suport services (10.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Abbottstown’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Demographics

In Abbottstown, just 11.90% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Abbottstown in 2022 was $33,498, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,992 for a family of four. However, Abbottstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Abbottstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Abbottstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Abbottstown include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Abbottstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry.

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 Abbottstown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.9% 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, 32.8% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 21.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households.

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 Abbottstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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