Sharon is a somewhat small city located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 12,952 people and five associated neighborhoods, Sharon is the 75th largest community in Pennsylvania.Sharon is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sharon is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharon who work in food service (10.02%), sales jobs (9.45%), and office and administrative support (8.75%). Also of interest is that Sharon has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 17.69 minutes getting to work every day.The percentage of adults in Sharon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.57% of the adults in Sharon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Sharon in 2022 was $25,268, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,072 for a family of four. However, Sharon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sharon is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sharon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sharon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sharon include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Sharon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
