Mount Jewett is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 832 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Jewett is the 864th largest community in Pennsylvania. Mount Jewett has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
When you are in Mount Jewett, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.80% of Mount Jewett’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Jewett is a borough of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Jewett who work in healthcare suport services (13.11%), office and administrative support (9.76%), and management occupations (7.01%).
It is a fairly quiet borough 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!) Mount Jewett 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. Mount Jewett has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Jewett than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Jewett may be for you.
One downside of living in Mount Jewett is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Mount Jewett, the average commute to work is 32.24 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
In terms of college education, Mount Jewett is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.76% of adults 25 and older in Mount Jewett have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Jewett in 2022 was $30,887, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,548 for a family of four. However, Mount Jewett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Mount Jewett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Jewett residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Jewett include German, Swedish, Irish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Mount Jewett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Mount Jewett, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. 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.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 45.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 14.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 5.7% have Hungarian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.6% 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 Mount Jewett are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.7% 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 51.5% 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, 33.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.4%), and 19.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (9.3%).
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 Mount Jewett, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.8%). There are also a number of people of Swedish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.2%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.