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Mohrsville, PA

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Overview


Mohrsville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 469 people and just one neighborhood, Mohrsville is the 996th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Mohrsville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Mohrsville real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Mohrsville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mohrsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mohrsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mohrsville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mohrsville who work in office and administrative support (31.67%), healthcare (20.00%), and personal care services (5.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In addition, Mohrsville is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates", which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Mohrsville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Mohrsville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mohrsville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Mohrsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.82% of adults in Mohrsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Mohrsville in 2018 was $36,019, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,076 for a family of four. However, Mohrsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mohrsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mohrsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mohrsville include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Dutch.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Mohrsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.4% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 38.3% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.5% have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% 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 Mohrsville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.4% 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, 32.7% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.2%), and 17.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 96.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Mohrsville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (38.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Polish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

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 (7.7%) . 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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