Saylorsburg is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,025 people and just one neighborhood, Saylorsburg is the 824th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Saylorsburg real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Saylorsburg house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Saylorsburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 70.17% of Saylorsburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Saylorsburg is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Saylorsburg who work in office and administrative support (8.10%), teaching (6.90%), and personal care services (3.28%).
Overall, Saylorsburg’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town 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, Saylorsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Saylorsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Saylorsburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Saylorsburg, the average commute to work is 45.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The rate of college-level education in Saylorsburg is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.56% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Saylorsburg in 2022 was $41,367, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,468 for a family of four.
Saylorsburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Saylorsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Saylorsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Saylorsburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.64% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Saylorsburg include German, Irish, Italian, Scottish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Saylorsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Saylorsburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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.
In addition, owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 96.0% of neighborhoods in America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Saylorsburg is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in PA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.2% of the neighborhoods in Pennsylvania. If you are considering retiring to Pennsylvania, this is a good neighborhood to look at. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 23.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 0.6% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Saylorsburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 77.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.7% 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 32.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
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 Saylorsburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (23.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.5%), 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 (39.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.0%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.