Sugarcreek is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,719 people and just one neighborhood, Sugarcreek is the 320th largest community in Pennsylvania. Sugarcreek has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Unlike some boroughs, Sugarcreek isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sugarcreek are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sugarcreek is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sugarcreek who work in sales jobs (15.71%), office and administrative support (11.17%), and management occupations (8.32%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.15% 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.
The borough is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sugarcreek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sugarcreek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small borough, Sugarcreek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Sugarcreek with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.18% of adults in Sugarcreek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sugarcreek in 2022 was $29,624, 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 $118,496 for a family of four. However, Sugarcreek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sugarcreek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sugarcreek residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sugarcreek include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Sugarcreek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% 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 Sugarcreek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 31.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.1%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Sugarcreek, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.9%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (42.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.