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Liverpool - Millerstown, PA

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Overview


Liverpool - Millerstown is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,060 people and just one neighborhood, Liverpool - Millerstown is the 301st largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Liverpool - Millerstown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Liverpool - Millerstown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Liverpool - Millerstown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Liverpool - Millerstown who work in office and administrative support (14.39%), management occupations (12.34%), and healthcare (6.11%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Liverpool - Millerstown has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.08% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

Because of many things, Liverpool - Millerstown is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Liverpool - Millerstown a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Liverpool - Millerstown has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Liverpool - Millerstown’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

In Liverpool - Millerstown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.89 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Liverpool - Millerstown overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Liverpool - Millerstown, 23.61% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Liverpool - Millerstown in 2018 was $36,754, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $147,016 for a family of four. However, Liverpool - Millerstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Liverpool - Millerstown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 39.1% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Liverpool - Millerstown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 55.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.6% 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, 40.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.5%), and 15.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Spanish and Polish.

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 Liverpool - Millerstown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (10.3%) . 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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