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Hopwood, PA

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Overview


Hopwood is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,062 people and just one neighborhood, Hopwood is the 634th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Hopwood is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Hopwood is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hopwood who work in sales jobs (15.71%), management occupations (13.60%), and office and administrative support (12.76%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Hopwood 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. Hopwood has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hopwood than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hopwood may be for you.

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.30 minutes getting to work every day.

Demographics

The education level of Hopwood citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.53% of adults in Hopwood have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Hopwood in 2022 was $45,589, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $182,356 for a family of four. However, Hopwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Hopwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hopwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hopwood include Irish, English, Italian, German, and Slovak.

The most common language spoken in Hopwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Pacific Island languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.0% have Croatian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.0% 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 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Hopwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.1% 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 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.7%), and 19.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (18.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Hopwood, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.5%), along with some Slovak ancestry residents (6.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.2%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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