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!) Shickshinny 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. Shickshinny has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shickshinny than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shickshinny may be for you.
Being a small borough, Shickshinny does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Shickshinny with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.07% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shickshinny in 2022 was $25,505, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,020 for a family of four. However, Shickshinny contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Shickshinny is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Shickshinny home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shickshinny residents report their race to be White. Shickshinny also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.91% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shickshinny include German, Irish, Polish, English, and Slavic.
The most common language spoken in Shickshinny is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
