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Pitcairn, PA

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Overview


Pitcairn is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,987 people and just one neighborhood, Pitcairn is the 479th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Pitcairn was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs, Pitcairn isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pitcairn are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pitcairn is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pitcairn who work in office and administrative support (17.11%), sales jobs (10.96%), and management occupations (9.74%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.51% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Pitcairn, even though it is a small borough, has many people who use public transportation every day to get to and from work. This is a great benefit for people in the, borough who have a need for low-cost transportation.

Demographics

The citizens of Pitcairn are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.43% of adults in Pitcairn have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Pitcairn in 2022 was $23,017, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,068 for a family of four. However, Pitcairn contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.2% have Slovak 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 Pitcairn are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% 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, 31.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.9%), and 22.7% 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 94.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

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 Pitcairn, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Hungarian ancestry (4.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (64.6%) 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 (19.1%) and 6.6% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. 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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