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Terre Hill, PA

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Overview


Terre Hill is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,346 people and just one neighborhood, Terre Hill is the 752nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Terre Hill has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Terre Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Terre Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Terre Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.16% of Terre Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Terre Hill is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Terre Hill who work in office and administrative support (17.28%), sales jobs (11.79%), and food service (7.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small borough, Terre Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Terre Hill with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.82% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Terre Hill in 2022 was $28,128, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,512 for a family of four. However, Terre Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Terre Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Terre Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Terre Hill include German, Irish, Swiss, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Terre Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Would you like to be able to ride your bike to work? If you are attracted to the idea of getting a little exercise of the two-wheeled type while reducing your carbon footprint, bicycling to work might be the answer. But which neighborhood you live in can make this either impossible, or alternatively, a great and realistic option. NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that the neighborhood is a fantastic option for bicycle commuters, as 5.3% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Also, our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (25.8%) than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 25.6% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 33.0% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Terre Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% 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 59.5% of America'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, 35.5% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 66.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Terre Hill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.2%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.1%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (51.5%) 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 (25.8%) and 5.3% of residents also bicycle for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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