Wind Gap is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,601 people and two associated neighborhoods, Wind Gap is the 521st largest community in Pennsylvania. Wind Gap has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wind Gap is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wind Gap is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wind Gap who work in healthcare suport services (10.71%), sales jobs (10.59%), and office and administrative support (9.95%). Also of interest is that Wind Gap has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 21.61% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Being a small borough, Wind Gap does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The citizens of Wind Gap are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.46% of adults in Wind Gap having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Wind Gap in 2022 was $37,449, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $149,796 for a family of four. However, Wind Gap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Wind Gap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wind Gap residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wind Gap include German, Italian, Bulgarian, English, and Irish. The most common language spoken in Wind Gap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
