Columbus - Sugar Grove is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,037 people and just one neighborhood, Columbus - Sugar Grove is the 290th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Columbus - Sugar Grove, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.95% of Columbus - Sugar Grove’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Columbus - Sugar Grove is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Columbus - Sugar Grove who work in office and administrative support (8.47%), sales jobs (6.90%), and healthcare (6.31%).
The percentage of people in Columbus - Sugar Grove with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.39% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Columbus - Sugar Grove in 2022 was $29,741, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,964 for a family of four. However, Columbus - Sugar Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Columbus - Sugar Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Columbus - Sugar Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Columbus - Sugar Grove include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Columbus - Sugar Grove 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swedish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swedish ancestry and 4.7% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% 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 97.9% 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 Columbus - Sugar Grove are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 36.8% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 93.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, German/Yiddish and Spanish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Columbus - Sugar Grove, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (7.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.