Jamestown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 576 people and two associated neighborhoods, Jamestown is the 952nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Jamestown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.Unlike some boroughs, Jamestown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Jamestown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jamestown is a borough of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jamestown who work in maintenance occupations (12.02%), healthcare suport services (11.59%), and sales jobs (9.01%). It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Jamestown has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Jamestown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jamestown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jamestown may be for you. Jamestown 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.The citizens of Jamestown are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.79% of adults in Jamestown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree The per capita income in Jamestown in 2022 was $25,213, 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 $100,852 for a family of four. However, Jamestown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Jamestown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jamestown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jamestown include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Jamestown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
