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New Ringgold, PA

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Overview


New Ringgold is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 252 people and just one neighborhood, New Ringgold is the 1069th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in New Ringgold was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

New Ringgold is a blue-collar town, with 47.15% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Ringgold is a borough of construction workers and builders, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Ringgold who work in office and administrative support (11.38%), management occupations (8.13%), and food service (6.50%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in New Ringgold is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, New Ringgold is worth considering.

One downside of living in New Ringgold is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In New Ringgold, the average commute to work is 33.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small borough, New Ringgold does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In New Ringgold, just 8.33% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in New Ringgold in 2018 was $29,147, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $116,588 for a family of four. However, New Ringgold contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Ringgold home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Ringgold residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in New Ringgold include German, Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, and Swedish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 New Ringgold, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 2.7% have Slovak ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 New Ringgold are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.5% of America'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, 39.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.6%), and 12.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.4%).

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 New Ringgold, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.7%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (72.6%) 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 (11.7%) and 7.9% 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.


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