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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Intercourse - Gordonville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,692 people and just one neighborhood, Intercourse - Gordonville is the 260th largest community in Pennsylvania. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Intercourse - Gordonville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Intercourse - Gordonville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Intercourse - Gordonville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Intercourse - Gordonville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $82,039.00.
Intercourse - Gordonville real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Intercourse - Gordonville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Intercourse - Gordonville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.09% of the Intercourse - Gordonville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Intercourse - Gordonville is a town of construction workers and builders, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Intercourse - Gordonville who work in management occupations (15.10%), sales jobs (11.43%), and office and administrative support (5.34%).
A relatively large number of people in Intercourse - Gordonville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.23% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Intercourse - Gordonville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.84% of adults in Intercourse - Gordonville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Intercourse - Gordonville in 2022 was $32,495, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,980 for a family of four. However, Intercourse - Gordonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Intercourse - Gordonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Intercourse - Gordonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Intercourse - Gordonville include German, Pennsylvania German, English, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Intercourse - Gordonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Car Ownership
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 42.0% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 4.9% of commuters here do ride their bikes to and from work on a daily basis. This is a higher amount than we found in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Also, in the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 19.1% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 98.1% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
Finally, our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.5%) than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Occupations
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.9% of American neighborhoods.
Diversity
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, 33.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 57.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% 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 Intercourse - Gordonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.7% 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 56.0% 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, 44.2% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is German/Yiddish, spoken by 57.8% of households. Some people also speak English (40.8%).
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 Intercourse - Gordonville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (34.9%) 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 (22.5%) and 19.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
