Macungie is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,039 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Macungie is the 547th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Macungie is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Macungie is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Macungie who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.32%), sales jobs (10.62%), and management occupations (8.18%).

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

Macungie is very much a car-oriented borough. This is because the population of Macungie isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.23% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Macungie Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Macungie is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.89% of adults in Macungie have a college degree.

The per capita income in Macungie in 2000 was $26,965, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,860 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Macungie is English.