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Bushkill, PA
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Bushkill profile


Living in Bushkill


Bushkill is a medium-sized town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 11,432 people and four associated neighborhoods, Bushkill is the 96th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.55% 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.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bushkill has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bushkill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bushkill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bushkill may be for you.

One downside of living in Bushkill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bushkill, the average commute to work is 41.87 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the town, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative.

In Bushkill, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Bushkill is a relatively small town. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.

The population of Bushkill 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 Bushkill, 24.73% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Bushkill in 2022 was $35,591, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,364 for a family of four. However, Bushkill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bushkill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bushkill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bushkill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bushkill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.64% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bushkill include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and English.

In addition, Bushkill has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.14%).

The most common language spoken in Bushkill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.