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Beaverdale, PA

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Overview


Beaverdale is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 959 people and just one neighborhood, Beaverdale is the 841st largest community in Pennsylvania. Beaverdale has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Beaverdale is a blue-collar town, with 52.81% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beaverdale is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beaverdale who work in healthcare (17.23%), healthcare suport services (13.48%), and food service (3.75%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Beaverdale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Beaverdale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Beaverdale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Beaverdale ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.79% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Beaverdale in 2018 was $31,604, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $126,416 for a family of four. However, Beaverdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Beaverdale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 41.4% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Beaverdale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.4% 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, 32.6% 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 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.9%), and 17.9% 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 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 Beaverdale, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (41.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Slovak ancestry (8.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.5%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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