Mount Holly Springs is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,020 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Holly Springs is the 648th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Mount Holly Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Holly Springs is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Holly Springs who work in office and administrative support (12.65%), food service (10.67%), and sales jobs (9.78%).
Also of interest is that Mount Holly Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The percentage of people in Mount Holly Springs with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.64% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Holly Springs in 2022 was $34,331, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,324 for a family of four. However, Mount Holly Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Holly Springs is a very ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Mount Holly Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Holly Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mount Holly Springs include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Mount Holly Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
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 Mount Holly Springs are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 59.0% of America'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, 31.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.5%), and 16.6% 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 93.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Mount Holly Springs, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.0%), among others.
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 (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.