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Terre Hill, PA

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Overview


Terre Hill is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,346 people and just one neighborhood, Terre Hill is the 752nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Terre Hill has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Terre Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Terre Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Terre Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.16% of Terre Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Terre Hill is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Terre Hill who work in office and administrative support (17.28%), sales jobs (11.79%), and food service (7.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Terre Hill is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Terre Hill is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.82% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Terre Hill in 2018 was $28,128, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,512 for a family of four. However, Terre Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Terre Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Terre Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Terre Hill include German, Irish, Swiss, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Terre Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.

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 Terre Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 5.3% of residents in the neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 98.4% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

Also, in the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 25.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 25.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 33.0% 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 99.9% 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 Terre Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.5% 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, 35.5% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 16.2% 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 66.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Terre Hill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.2%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (51.5%) 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 (25.8%) and 5.3% of residents also bicycle for their daily commute. 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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