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Shermans Dale, PA

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Overview


Shermans Dale is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,332 people and just one neighborhood, Shermans Dale is the 279th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Shermans Dale is a blue-collar town, with 37.82% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Shermans Dale is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shermans Dale who work in office and administrative support (14.38%), healthcare suport services (9.43%), and business and financial occupations (7.15%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Shermans Dale is worth considering.

One downside of living in Shermans Dale is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Shermans Dale, the average commute to work is 33.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Shermans Dale who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.46% of the adults in Shermans Dale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shermans Dale in 2018 was $36,069, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,276 for a family of four. However, Shermans Dale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Shermans Dale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.5% have Haitian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% 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 98.4% 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 Shermans Dale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.2% of U.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, 35.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.5%), and 16.9% 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 93.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, German/Yiddish and Polish.

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 Shermans Dale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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