Mingoville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 527 people and just one neighborhood, Mingoville is the 973rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Mingoville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mingoville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mingoville, where the median household income is $89,438.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mingoville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 52.17% of the Mingoville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mingoville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mingoville who work in management occupations (26.09%), sales jobs (21.74%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).
Because of many things, Mingoville is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Mingoville a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Mingoville has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Mingoville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Mingoville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Mingoville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Mingoville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mingoville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.80% of adults in Mingoville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Mingoville in 2022 was $32,978, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,912 for a family of four.
The people who call Mingoville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mingoville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mingoville include German, English, French, Slovak, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Mingoville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Russian.
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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.9% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in 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 Mingoville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 29.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.2% 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, 38.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.0%), and 18.8% 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 85.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Mingoville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.