Pringle is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 899 people and just one neighborhood, Pringle is the 853rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Pringle was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Unlike some boroughs, Pringle isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pringle are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pringle is a borough of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pringle who work in office and administrative support (17.18%), business and financial occupations (7.66%), and sales jobs (6.63%).
Pringle is a small borough, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Pringle is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 26.22% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pringle in 2022 was $39,220, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $156,880 for a family of four. However, Pringle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pringle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pringle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pringle include Irish, Polish, German, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Pringle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 3.9% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% 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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pringle are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 28.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.6% 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, 35.0% 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 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (11.3%).
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 Pringle, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.9%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report German roots (18.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.4%), among others.
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 (39.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.9%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.