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New Providence, PA

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Overview


New Providence is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 7,015 people and just one neighborhood, New Providence is the 186th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Providence, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.04% of New Providence’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Providence is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Providence who work in office and administrative support (14.89%), sales jobs (8.47%), and business and financial occupations (6.83%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, New Providence has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Providence a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, New Providence does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in New Providence with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.53% of adults in New Providence have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Providence in 2018 was $34,708, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $138,832 for a family of four. However, New Providence contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Providence home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Providence residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Providence include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.

The most common language spoken in New Providence is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has the distinction of having one of the lowest real estate vacancy rates of any neighborhood in America. With just 0.0% of the real estate vacant, this indicates an exceptionally strong demand for real estate in the neighborhood, and/or an issue with creating enough supply for the demand. This could have the effect of increasing real estate prices, increasing supply to meet demand, or both.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.3% 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 Lithuanian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 37.9% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.7% 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 99.6% 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 New Providence are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.3% 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 52.6% 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, 42.0% 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 21.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 17.1% 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 89.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Italian and Polish.

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 New Providence, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.9%) 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 (16.7%) . 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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