New Bethlehem is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 962 people and just one neighborhood, New Bethlehem is the 836th largest community in Pennsylvania. New Bethlehem has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, New Bethlehem is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Bethlehem is a borough of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in New Bethlehem who work in office and administrative support (20.19%), management occupations (14.83%), and sales jobs (11.36%).
New Bethlehem 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 percentage of adults in New Bethlehem who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.72% of the adults in New Bethlehem have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in New Bethlehem in 2022 was $27,513, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,052 for a family of four. However, New Bethlehem contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Bethlehem home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Bethlehem residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Bethlehem include German, Irish, Ukrainian, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in New Bethlehem is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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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 New Bethlehem are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.7% of U.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, 31.9% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.9%), and 19.8% 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 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.4%).
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 New Bethlehem, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.5%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.