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Bowmanstown, PA

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Overview


Bowmanstown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 895 people and just one neighborhood, Bowmanstown is the 855th largest community in Pennsylvania. Bowmanstown 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

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Bowmanstown is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bowmanstown is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowmanstown who work in healthcare suport services (14.78%), office and administrative support (12.59%), and food service (9.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bowmanstown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.87 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Bowmanstown who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.80% of adults in Bowmanstown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bowmanstown in 2022 was $37,206, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,824 for a family of four. However, Bowmanstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 11.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 46.8% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Bowmanstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.7%), and 15.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.9%).

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 Bowmanstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (46.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Slovak roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (6.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (87.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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