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Shade Gap, PA

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Overview


Shade Gap is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 77 people and just one neighborhood, Shade Gap is the 1124th largest community in Pennsylvania. Shade Gap has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Shade Gap, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.90% of Shade Gap’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Shade Gap is a borough of production and manufacturing workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shade Gap who work in sales jobs (14.63%), healthcare (12.20%), and healthcare suport services (9.76%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.63% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Shade Gap is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Shade Gap a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Shade Gap has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Shade Gap’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Shade Gap, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.07 minutes every day commuting to work.

Shade Gap 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

In terms of college education, Shade Gap ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.26% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shade Gap in 2022 was $31,023, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,092 for a family of four.

The people who call Shade Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shade Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Shade Gap include German, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.1% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

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. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Shade Gap are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% of U.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, 37.4% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Shade Gap, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (37.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (14.3%) . 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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