Shoemakersville is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,354 people and just one neighborhood, Shoemakersville is the 750th largest community in Pennsylvania. Shoemakersville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Shoemakersville real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Shoemakersville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Shoemakersville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shoemakersville is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shoemakersville who work in sales jobs (12.53%), office and administrative support (10.05%), and maintenance occupations (7.92%).
Being a small borough, Shoemakersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Shoemakersville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.52% of adults in Shoemakersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Shoemakersville in 2022 was $35,308, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,232 for a family of four. However, Shoemakersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Shoemakersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shoemakersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Shoemakersville include German, Polish, Irish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Shoemakersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 51.0% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
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 Shoemakersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.7% 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 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.6%).
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 Shoemakersville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (51.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.