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Bowmanstown, PA

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Overview


Bowmanstown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 897 people and just one neighborhood, Bowmanstown is the 855th largest community in Pennsylvania. Bowmanstown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Bowmanstown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bowmanstown is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bowmanstown who work in office and administrative support (17.35%), healthcare suport services (12.93%), and food service (10.88%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Bowmanstown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bowmanstown, the average commute to work is 31.09 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The overall education level of Bowmanstown is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.18% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bowmanstown in 2018 was $32,091, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,364 for a family of four. However, Bowmanstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bowmanstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bowmanstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bowmanstown include German, Irish, English, Pennsylvania German, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.1% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 6.9% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Bowmanstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.3% 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, 41.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Polish (10.9%).

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 Bowmanstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Slovak roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (6.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (87.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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