Wilmerding is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,715 people and just one neighborhood, Wilmerding is the 680th largest community in Pennsylvania. Wilmerding has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Wilmerding is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 85.01% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Wilmerding is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilmerding who work in sales jobs (12.58%), office and administrative support (12.45%), and management occupations (10.52%).
Also of interest is that Wilmerding has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.62% 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.
One downside of living in Wilmerding is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wilmerding, the average commute to work is 33.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the borough, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative. In addition, it is also a pedestrian-friendly borough. Many of Wilmerding’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
Despite the fact that it is a small borough, Wilmerding has quite a few people who take public transportation – mostly the bus - for their daily commute to work. This helps to fill a real need in the borough for affordable transportation.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Wilmerding rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.40% of adults 25 and older in Wilmerding 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 Wilmerding in 2022 was $23,835, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,340 for a family of four. However, Wilmerding contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wilmerding is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Wilmerding home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilmerding residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wilmerding include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Wilmerding is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wilmerding, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 6.5% have African ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% 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 Wilmerding are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.2% 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, 38.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.4%), and 15.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wilmerding, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (8.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.2%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (66.2%) 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 (10.6%) and 8.0% 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.