Hyndman is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 854 people and just one neighborhood, Hyndman is the 863rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Hyndman was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hyndman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.82% of the Hyndman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hyndman is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hyndman who work in sales jobs (17.07%), office and administrative support (9.19%), and food service (7.44%).
The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Hyndman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Hyndman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Hyndman is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hyndman, the average commute to work is 32.65 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Hyndman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Hyndman has a very low overall level of education: only 7.32% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Hyndman in 2022 was $24,509, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,036 for a family of four. However, Hyndman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hyndman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hyndman residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hyndman include German, English, Irish, Polish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Hyndman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.9% of America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hyndman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.4% of America'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, 38.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Hyndman, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (16.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.