Millsboro - Fredericktown is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,295 people and just one neighborhood, Millsboro - Fredericktown is the 597th largest community in Pennsylvania. Millsboro - Fredericktown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns, Millsboro - Fredericktown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Millsboro - Fredericktown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Millsboro - Fredericktown is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millsboro - Fredericktown who work in office and administrative support (19.63%), healthcare (12.47%), and sales jobs (11.80%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.01% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Millsboro - Fredericktown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Millsboro - Fredericktown are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.85% of adults in Millsboro - Fredericktown having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Millsboro - Fredericktown in 2022 was $28,090, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,360 for a family of four. However, Millsboro - Fredericktown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Millsboro - Fredericktown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millsboro - Fredericktown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Millsboro - Fredericktown include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Millsboro - Fredericktown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Millsboro - Fredericktown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.4% have Lithuanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Millsboro - Fredericktown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% of U.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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.1%), and 23.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (11.3%).
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 Millsboro - Fredericktown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Italian roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.3%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (6.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.