Shermans Dale is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,332 people and just one neighborhood, Shermans Dale is the 279th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Shermans Dale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.82% of the Shermans Dale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Shermans Dale is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shermans Dale who work in office and administrative support (14.38%), healthcare suport services (9.43%), and business and financial occupations (7.15%).
The town 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, Shermans Dale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shermans Dale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Shermans Dale, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.48 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Shermans Dale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Shermans Dale who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.46% of the adults in Shermans Dale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shermans Dale in 2022 was $36,069, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,276 for a family of four. However, Shermans Dale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shermans Dale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shermans Dale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shermans Dale include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Shermans Dale 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 Shermans Dale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Haitian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.5% have Haitian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% 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 98.4% 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 Shermans Dale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.2% 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, 35.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.5%), and 16.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 93.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Shermans Dale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (29.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.