Fountain Hill is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,798 people and just one neighborhood, Fountain Hill is the 316th largest community in Pennsylvania. Fountain Hill has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, Fountain Hill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Fountain Hill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fountain Hill is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fountain Hill who work in office and administrative support (12.32%), sales jobs (11.03%), and healthcare (8.53%).
Also of interest is that Fountain Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.51% 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.
The citizens of Fountain Hill are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.74% of adults in Fountain Hill having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fountain Hill in 2022 was $28,896, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,584 for a family of four. However, Fountain Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fountain Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Fountain Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fountain Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Fountain Hill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.66% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fountain Hill include German, Irish, Italian, Hungarian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Fountain Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
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.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 32.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 13.2% have Dominican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Fountain Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.9% 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, 34.1% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.4%), and 17.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.9%).
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 Fountain Hill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Dominican roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (11.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.2%), among others. In addition, 12.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (17.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.