Gratz - Berrysburg is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,763 people and just one neighborhood, Gratz - Berrysburg is the 417th largest community in Pennsylvania. Gratz - Berrysburg has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Gratz - Berrysburg is a blue-collar town, with 45.52% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gratz - Berrysburg is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gratz - Berrysburg who work in sales jobs (9.02%), office and administrative support (8.89%), and management occupations (7.72%).
Also of interest is that Gratz - Berrysburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.67% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
The rate of college-level education in Gratz - Berrysburg is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.68% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Gratz - Berrysburg in 2022 was $30,226, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,904 for a family of four. However, Gratz - Berrysburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gratz - Berrysburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gratz - Berrysburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gratz - Berrysburg include German, Pennsylvania German, Irish, Swiss, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Gratz - Berrysburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gratz - Berrysburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 21.7% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 37.7% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 24.5% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Gratz - Berrysburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% 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, 41.3% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 69.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Gratz - Berrysburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (3.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.
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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (61.8%) 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 (21.5%) and 6.3% 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.