Fawn Grove is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 474 people and just one neighborhood, Fawn Grove is the 993rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Fawn Grove has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Fawn Grove real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Fawn Grove house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Fawn Grove is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fawn Grove is a borough of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fawn Grove who work in management occupations (13.14%), office and administrative support (12.00%), and food service (8.00%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 20.69% 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.
Overall, Fawn Grove’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The borough 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, Fawn Grove has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fawn Grove a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Fawn Grove, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.87 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Fawn Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Fawn Grove rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.50% of adults 25 and older in Fawn Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Fawn Grove in 2022 was $36,136, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $144,544 for a family of four. However, Fawn Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fawn Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fawn Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Fawn Grove include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Fawn Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
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 Fawn Grove are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 78.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% 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 63.9% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.5% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.5% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.6%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Fawn Grove, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (48.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.