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Tower City - Muir, PA

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Overview


Tower City - Muir is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,865 people and just one neighborhood, Tower City - Muir is the 410th largest community in Pennsylvania. Tower City - Muir has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Tower City - Muir is a blue-collar town, with 41.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tower City - Muir is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Tower City - Muir who work in office and administrative support (9.62%), sales jobs (6.80%), and healthcare suport services (5.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Tower City - Muir, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.79 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. However, the town is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

As is often the case in a small town, Tower City - Muir doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Tower City - Muir are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.21% of adults in Tower City - Muir have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Tower City - Muir in 2022 was $32,502, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,008 for a family of four. However, Tower City - Muir contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Tower City - Muir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tower City - Muir residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tower City - Muir include German, Irish, Dutch, Italian, and Pennsylvania German.

The most common language spoken in Tower City - Muir is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 43.9% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Tower City - Muir are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.7% 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 62.3% 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, 41.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.1%).

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 Tower City - Muir, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (43.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Dutch roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (32.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (15.9%) . 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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