McConnellsburg is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,141 people and just one neighborhood, McConnellsburg is the 803rd largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McConnellsburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.13% of the McConnellsburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McConnellsburg is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in McConnellsburg who work in sales jobs (15.22%), office and administrative support (7.88%), and healthcare suport services (7.34%).
Of important note, McConnellsburg is also a borough of artists. McConnellsburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape McConnellsburg’s character.
Also of interest is that McConnellsburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
McConnellsburg is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of McConnellsburg is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.74% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in McConnellsburg in 2022 was $27,383, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,532 for a family of four. However, McConnellsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call McConnellsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McConnellsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McConnellsburg include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in McConnellsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 McConnellsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.6% of U.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, 37.9% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households.
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 McConnellsburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.