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Johnsonburg, PA

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Overview


Johnsonburg is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,329 people and just one neighborhood, Johnsonburg is the 587th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Johnsonburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Johnsonburg is a blue-collar town, with 44.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Johnsonburg is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Johnsonburg who work in community and social services (7.05%), sales jobs (6.97%), and management occupations (6.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small borough, Johnsonburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Johnsonburg are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.54% of adults in Johnsonburg having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Johnsonburg in 2022 was $33,349, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,396 for a family of four. However, Johnsonburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 2.1% have Swiss ancestry.

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 Johnsonburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% of U.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, 44.6% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (5.4%).

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 Johnsonburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (35.6%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (21.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (8.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (44.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.0%) 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 (18.7%) and 5.5% 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.


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