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Needmore, PA

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Overview


Needmore is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 153 people and just one neighborhood, Needmore is the 1106th largest community in Pennsylvania. Needmore has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Needmore is a blue-collar town, with 64.71% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Needmore is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Needmore who work in management occupations (8.82%), sales jobs (5.88%), and community and social services (5.88%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Needmore’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Needmore is worth considering.

One downside of living in Needmore is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Needmore, the average commute to work is 30.78 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Needmore ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.30% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Needmore in 2022 was $31,025, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $124,100 for a family of four. However, Needmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Needmore is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Needmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Needmore residents report their race to be White. Needmore also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.50% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Needmore include German, English, Scandinavian, Swedish, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Needmore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 33.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Needmore are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.8% 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, 34.7% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.0%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Needmore, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.5%), along with some Italian 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (34.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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