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Ingram, PA

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Overview


Ingram is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,259 people and just one neighborhood, Ingram is the 449th largest community in Pennsylvania. Ingram has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ingram is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ingram is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ingram who work in office and administrative support (18.38%), maintenance occupations (7.82%), and sales jobs (7.56%).

A relatively large number of people in Ingram telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.59% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

Despite being a small borough, Ingram has a lot of people using the bus to get to and from work every day. Most of these people on the bus are using it to get to good jobs in other cities.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Ingram is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 25.97% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ingram in 2022 was $38,988, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,952 for a family of four. However, Ingram contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ingram is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Ingram home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ingram residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ingram include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Ingram is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.

In addition, if you find historic homes and neighborhoods attractive, you love the details, the history, and the charm, then you are sure to be interested in this neighborhood. With 55.1% of the residential real estate in the neighborhood built no later than 1939, and some built considerably earlier, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of historic residences than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America. In this regard, this neighborhood truly stands out as special.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 26.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 0.5% have Yugoslav ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 21.9% 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 99.8% 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 Ingram are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.8% 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, 28.5% 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 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 21.0% 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 92.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and French.

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 Ingram, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (26.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.0%), 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 (41.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.8%) 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 (10.4%) . 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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