Shinglehouse is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,070 people and just one neighborhood, Shinglehouse is the 809th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Shinglehouse is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.93% of the Shinglehouse workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Shinglehouse is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shinglehouse who work in office and administrative support (10.30%), healthcare (8.01%), and community and social services (7.78%).
Overall, Shinglehouse’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Shinglehouse has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Shinglehouse has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shinglehouse than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shinglehouse may be for you.
Shinglehouse is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Shinglehouse who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.02% of the adults in Shinglehouse have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shinglehouse in 2022 was $29,086, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,344 for a family of four. However, Shinglehouse contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shinglehouse home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shinglehouse residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Shinglehouse include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Shinglehouse is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Shinglehouse, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 34.4%, which is higher than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of 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 Shinglehouse are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.5% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.6%).
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 Shinglehouse, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (6.9%) and 5.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.