Village Shires is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,170 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Village Shires is the 429th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Village Shires is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.60% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Village Shires is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Village Shires who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.67%), sales jobs (19.44%), and teaching (10.07%).

Also of interest is that Village Shires has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Village Shires is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Village Shires is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Village Shires really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Village Shires perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Village Shires, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.53 minutes every day commuting to work.

Village Shires is a very car-oriented town. 96.9% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Village Shires is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Village Shires has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small town, Village Shires doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Village Shires Information and Demographics

The citizens of Village Shires are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 37.57% of adults in Village Shires have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Village Shires in 2000 was $32,198, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,792 for a family of four.

The people who call Village Shires home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Village Shires is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Village Shires include Irish, German, Russian, Italian, Polish, English, Scotch-Irish, and Ukrainian.

The most common language spoken in Village Shires is English. Some people also speak Russian.