Sheakleyville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 148 people and just one neighborhood, Sheakleyville is the 1107th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Sheakleyville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sheakleyville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.05% of the Sheakleyville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sheakleyville is a borough of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sheakleyville who work in maintenance occupations (10.96%), healthcare (9.59%), and food service (8.22%).
Also of interest is that Sheakleyville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Sheakleyville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Sheakleyville is worth considering.
Being a small borough, Sheakleyville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Sheakleyville has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.82% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Sheakleyville in 2022 was $28,625, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,500 for a family of four. However, Sheakleyville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sheakleyville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sheakleyville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sheakleyville include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Sheakleyville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Sheakleyville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.3% 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, 34.8% 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 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (5.4%).
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 Sheakleyville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report English roots (11.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (13.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.