Newburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 368 people and just one neighborhood, Newburg is the 1034th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Newburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in Newburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 57.98% of Newburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Newburg is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Newburg who work in office and administrative support (10.08%), management occupations (5.04%), and sales jobs (4.62%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.36% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Overall, Newburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Newburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Newburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Newburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Newburg, the average commute to work is 32.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Newburg 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 Newburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.28% of adults in Newburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Newburg in 2022 was $37,554, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,216 for a family of four. However, Newburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Newburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Newburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Newburg include German, Irish, Greek, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Newburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 33.5% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.4% 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.
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 Newburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.6% 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 62.7% of America'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, 34.4% 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 33.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (10.4%).
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 Newburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.5%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (53.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.5%) 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 (19.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.