Overview
Pringle is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 899 people and just one neighborhood, Pringle is the 853rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Pringle 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, Pringle isn鈥檛 mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pringle are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pringle is a borough of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pringle who work in office and administrative support (15.04%), food service (8.20%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.81%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Pringle 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 education level of Pringle citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.75% of adults in Pringle have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pringle in 2022 was $38,088, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $152,352 for a family of four. However, Pringle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pringle is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Pringle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pringle residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pringle include Irish, German, Polish, Finnish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Pringle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 蘑菇视频's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Occupations
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What 蘑菇视频's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 13.5% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 5.9% have Finnish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.3% 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 98.4% 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 Pringle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.9% 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, 31.8% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.1%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (11.3%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Pringle, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.7%), and residents who report Polish roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.4%), along with some Finnish ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (15.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
