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Forksville - Hillsgrove, PA

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Overview


Forksville - Hillsgrove is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,569 people and just one neighborhood, Forksville - Hillsgrove is the 708th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Forksville - Hillsgrove is a blue-collar town, with 35.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Forksville - Hillsgrove is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Forksville - Hillsgrove who work in office and administrative support (10.68%), healthcare (9.54%), and management occupations (7.69%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Forksville - Hillsgrove is an extremely popular destination for tourists and seasonal residents. So much of the population is seasonal such that the town’s population swells significantly during the vacation season, and drops again when the season ends. Because of this, much of the local economy is centered around tourism; some businesses may be operated only during the high season. During the low season, year-round residents will notice that the city is a substantially quieter place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Forksville - Hillsgrove 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. Forksville - Hillsgrove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Forksville - Hillsgrove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Forksville - Hillsgrove may be for you.

One downside of living in Forksville - Hillsgrove, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.36 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Forksville - Hillsgrove doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Forksville - Hillsgrove rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.50% of adults 25 and older in Forksville - Hillsgrove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Forksville - Hillsgrove in 2022 was $34,063, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,252 for a family of four. However, Forksville - Hillsgrove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Forksville - Hillsgrove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Forksville - Hillsgrove residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Forksville - Hillsgrove include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Forksville - Hillsgrove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 62.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, 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 10 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.0% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry.

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 Forksville - Hillsgrove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.5% 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, 33.2% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.9%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.0%).

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 Forksville - Hillsgrove, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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