McVeytown is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 338 people and just one neighborhood, McVeytown is the 1042nd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in McVeytown was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in McVeytown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.74% of McVeytown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McVeytown is a borough of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McVeytown who work in office and administrative support (9.42%), community and social services (9.42%), and sales jobs (6.81%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.61% 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.
In McVeytown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.00 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
McVeytown 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.
In terms of college education, McVeytown is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.47% of adults 25 and older in McVeytown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in McVeytown in 2022 was $38,272, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $153,088 for a family of four.
McVeytown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call McVeytown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McVeytown residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in McVeytown include German, Irish, English, Pennsylvania German, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in McVeytown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.4% 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 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 McVeytown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.9% 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, 36.2% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 14.5% 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 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 McVeytown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (31.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (3.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (8.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.