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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Newell - Grindstone is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,463 people and just one neighborhood, Newell - Grindstone is the 570th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Newell - Grindstone was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Newell - Grindstone is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Newell - Grindstone is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Newell - Grindstone who work in healthcare (11.44%), sales jobs (9.78%), and management occupations (8.90%).
A relatively large number of people in Newell - Grindstone telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.29% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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
One downside of living in Newell - Grindstone, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.62 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Newell - Grindstone doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Newell - Grindstone are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.11% of adults in Newell - Grindstone having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Newell - Grindstone in 2018 was $34,668, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $138,672 for a family of four. However, Newell - Grindstone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newell - Grindstone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newell - Grindstone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Newell - Grindstone include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Newell - Grindstone is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Newell - Grindstone, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 2.3% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 12.9% 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 99.0% 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 Newell - Grindstone are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 34.5% 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 33.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 15.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Polish (12.9%).
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 Newell - Grindstone, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.2%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report German roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (14.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (12.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.7%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
