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New Wilmington, PA

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Overview


New Wilmington is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,106 people and just one neighborhood, New Wilmington is the 629th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

New Wilmington is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 91.32% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, New Wilmington is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Wilmington who work in sales jobs (18.92%), art, media, and design (14.70%), and office and administrative support (11.09%).

Of important note, New Wilmington is also a borough of artists. New Wilmington has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape New Wilmington’s character.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.60% 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

For a small borough, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in New Wilmington. This is not typical for smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to New Wilmington.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of New Wilmington spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.08 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the borough are less than they would otherwise be.

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

Demographics

New Wilmington is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 48.97% of adults in New Wilmington have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in New Wilmington in 2018 was $22,091, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,364 for a family of four. However, New Wilmington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 47.0% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

In addition, one of the really interesting characteristics about the neighborhood is that, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research, it is an excellent choice in which to reside for college students. Due to its popularity among college students who already choose to live here, its walkability, and its above average safety from crime, the neighborhood is ideal for prospective or already-enrolled college students. Between semesters and during school breaks, you'll notice that the excitement here fluctuates with the college seasons. Despite the excitement however, parents of college-age children can rest easy knowing that this neighborhood has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 1.1% of college-friendly places to live in the state of Pennsylvania.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 19.2% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 98.1% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 4.5% have Welsh 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 Wilmington are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.9% 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 75.6% of America'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, 40.0% 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 37.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 8.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 New Wilmington, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (54.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (63.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (19.2%) and 5.2% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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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