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Summit Hill, PA

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Overview


Summit Hill is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,139 people and just one neighborhood, Summit Hill is the 476th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Summit Hill was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Summit Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.10% of Summit Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Summit Hill is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Summit Hill who work in office and administrative support (14.14%), healthcare (13.94%), and food service (7.90%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Summit Hill is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Summit Hill is worth considering.

One downside of living in Summit Hill is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Summit Hill, the average commute to work is 34.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Summit Hill 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

The population of Summit Hill has a very low overall level of education: only 6.18% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Summit Hill in 2022 was $35,218, 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 $140,872 for a family of four. However, Summit Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Summit Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Summit Hill residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Summit Hill include German, Italian, Irish, Slovak, and Polish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 35.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.

In addition, do you watch 'This Old House' on Public Television? Do you love the idea of fixing up a Colonial or Victorian era home, complete with the charm of yesteryear? Do you like to stroll or drive streets lined with gracious older residences? If you found yourself nodding yes to any of these questions, you are going to be interested in this unique neighborhood. The neighborhood stands out on a national scale for the sheer concentration of historic residences it contains: 57.9% of the residential real estate here was built from 1939 or earlier, some much earlier. This is a greater concentration of historic homes than 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of America's neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.2% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 18.6% 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 99.6% 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 Summit Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 29.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% of U.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, 41.1% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.1%), and 15.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 96.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Summit Hill, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.5%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (9.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (42.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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