Washingtonville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 202 people and just one neighborhood, Washingtonville is the 1089th largest community in Pennsylvania. Washingtonville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Washingtonville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Washingtonville is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Washingtonville who work in food service (15.09%), management occupations (13.21%), and sales jobs (12.26%).
Also of interest is that Washingtonville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Washingtonville is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Washingtonville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.49% of adults in Washingtonville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Washingtonville in 2022 was $23,940, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,760 for a family of four. However, Washingtonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Washingtonville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.03% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Washingtonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Washingtonville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Washingtonville include German, English, Polish, Irish, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Washingtonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek 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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 39.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Washingtonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 53.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.6% 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, 30.7% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 14.2% 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 92.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Washingtonville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.5%) 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 (9.0%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.