Sugarloaf is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,930 people and just one neighborhood, Sugarloaf is the 411th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Unlike some towns, Sugarloaf isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sugarloaf are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sugarloaf is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sugarloaf who work in management occupations (19.57%), sales jobs (10.94%), and office and administrative support (9.96%).
A relatively large number of people in Sugarloaf telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.35% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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!) Sugarloaf 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. Sugarloaf has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sugarloaf than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sugarloaf may be for you.
The citizens of Sugarloaf are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 34.16% of adults in Sugarloaf have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sugarloaf in 2022 was $47,811, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $191,244 for a family of four.
The people who call Sugarloaf home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sugarloaf residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sugarloaf include Italian, German, Irish, Polish, and Slovak.
The most common language spoken in Sugarloaf is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Sugarloaf, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
An extraordinary 13.1% of the residents of the neighborhood are currently enrolled in college. This is such a large part of life in this neighborhood that the neighborhood changes a great deal with the change of semesters and is far quieter during the summer when many students are away.
In addition, if you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 13.6% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Italian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 29.2% have Italian 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 Sugarloaf are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 72.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.3% 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, 46.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.5%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.8% of households.
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 Sugarloaf, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Italian (29.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (23.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (18.5%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (10.6%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (5.4%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.