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Hyndman, PA

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Overview


Hyndman is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 854 people and just one neighborhood, Hyndman is the 863rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Hyndman was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hyndman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.82% of the Hyndman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hyndman is a borough of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hyndman who work in sales jobs (17.07%), office and administrative support (9.19%), and food service (7.44%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Hyndman is worth considering.

In Hyndman, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.65 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Hyndman is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Hyndman have a very low rate of college education: just 7.32% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Hyndman in 2022 was $24,509, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,036 for a family of four. However, Hyndman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Hyndman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Hyndman, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 34 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Hyndman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.9% 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 68.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Hyndman, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.6%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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