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Shippenville, PA

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Overview


Shippenville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 436 people and just one neighborhood, Shippenville is the 1005th largest community in Pennsylvania. Shippenville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Shippenville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.22% of Shippenville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Shippenville is a borough of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shippenville who work in healthcare suport services (10.53%), maintenance occupations (9.72%), and food service (8.50%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.29% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

As is often the case in a small borough, Shippenville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Shippenville rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.18% of adults 25 and older in Shippenville 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 Shippenville in 2022 was $24,236, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $96,944 for a family of four. However, Shippenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German 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 Shippenville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 32.0% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Shippenville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (15.0%) . 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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