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Hooversville - Stoystown, PA

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Overview


Hooversville - Stoystown is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,707 people and just one neighborhood, Hooversville - Stoystown is the 533rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Hooversville - Stoystown was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Hooversville - Stoystown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hooversville - Stoystown is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hooversville - Stoystown who work in office and administrative support (16.05%), sales jobs (10.75%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.84%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.11% 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

Hooversville - Stoystown is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Hooversville - Stoystown’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small town, Hooversville - Stoystown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Hooversville - Stoystown, just 11.96% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Hooversville - Stoystown in 2018 was $27,834, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,336 for a family of four. However, Hooversville - Stoystown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hooversville - Stoystown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hooversville - Stoystown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hooversville - Stoystown include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Hooversville - Stoystown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.0% have Hungarian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.2% 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 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hooversville - Stoystown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.8% 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 59.0% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 30.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.7%), and 18.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Hooversville - Stoystown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (45.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (20.2%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (13.1%) . 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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