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Tower City - Muir, PA

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Overview


Tower City - Muir is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,865 people and just one neighborhood, Tower City - Muir is the 410th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Tower City - Muir was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tower City - Muir is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.57% of the Tower City - Muir workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tower City - Muir is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tower City - Muir who work in office and administrative support (9.62%), sales jobs (6.80%), and healthcare suport services (5.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Tower City - Muir is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Tower City - Muir, the average commute to work is 30.79 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of Tower City - Muir’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Tower City - Muir is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Tower City - Muir with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.21% of adults in Tower City - Muir have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tower City - Muir in 2018 was $32,502, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,008 for a family of four. However, Tower City - Muir contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Tower City - Muir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tower City - Muir residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tower City - Muir include German, Irish, Dutch, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.

The most common language spoken in Tower City - Muir is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

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 Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 43.9% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% 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 Tower City - Muir are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.3% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 41.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.5% 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 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.1%).

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 Tower City - Muir, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Dutch roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (32.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (15.9%) . 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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