Greenock is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,989 people and just one neighborhood, Greenock is the 650th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Greenock is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Greenock is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Greenock who work in office and administrative support (21.01%), sales jobs (10.03%), and management occupations (9.76%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.79% 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!) Greenock 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. Greenock has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Greenock than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Greenock may be for you.
In Greenock, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.27 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Greenock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Greenock is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.75% of adults 25 and older in Greenock have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Greenock in 2022 was $40,690, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $162,760 for a family of four. However, Greenock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Greenock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Greenock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Greenock include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Slovak.
The most common language spoken in Greenock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.7% have Croatian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% 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 Greenock are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.0% 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 71.5% 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, 34.4% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Vietnamese.
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 Greenock, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.9%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (17.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (9.5%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.2%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.