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Spartansburg, PA

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Overview


Spartansburg is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 274 people and just one neighborhood, Spartansburg is the 1064th largest community in Pennsylvania. Spartansburg has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some boroughs where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Spartansburg is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Spartansburg is a borough of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spartansburg who work in healthcare suport services (16.15%), food service (7.69%), and office and administrative support (6.92%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.46% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Spartansburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spartansburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Spartansburg is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Spartansburg, the average commute to work is 30.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Spartansburg 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Spartansburg is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.19% of adults 25 and older in Spartansburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Spartansburg in 2022 was $26,652, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,608 for a family of four. However, Spartansburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Spartansburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.1%) than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. 28.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.9%, which is higher than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Furthermore, more people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.7% 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 Dutch and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.2% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 25.9% 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 99.9% 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 Spartansburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.3% 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, 42.3% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

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 73.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Spartansburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (8.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (26.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (59.5%) 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 (26.1%) and 6.8% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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