Bushkill is a medium-sized town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 11,432 people and four associated neighborhoods, Bushkill is the 96th largest community in Pennsylvania.Bushkill is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bushkill is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bushkill who work in management occupations (13.90%), office and administrative support (11.52%), and teaching (9.62%). A relatively large number of people in Bushkill telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.54% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Bushkill 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. Bushkill has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bushkill than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bushkill may be for you. In Bushkill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.52 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit. Even though Bushkill is a smaller town, it has many people who hop on public transportation – mostly the bus for their daily commute to work. Typically, these people are commuting to good jobs in the surrounding cities.The overall education level of Bushkill is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.53% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Bushkill in 2022 was $33,714, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,856 for a family of four. However, Bushkill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bushkill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bushkill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bushkill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bushkill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 26.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bushkill include Irish, German, Italian, African, and English. Bushkill also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.00%. The most common language spoken in Bushkill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
