Cherry Tree is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 269 people and just one neighborhood, Cherry Tree is the 1066th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Cherry Tree was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in Cherry Tree, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 57.52% of Cherry Tree’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cherry Tree is a borough of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cherry Tree who work in office and administrative support (14.38%), sales jobs (5.23%), and healthcare suport services (5.23%).
The overall crime rate in Cherry Tree is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents will find that the borough is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Cherry Tree is worth considering.
One downside of living in Cherry Tree is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cherry Tree, the average commute to work is 40.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small borough, Cherry Tree does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Cherry Tree ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.68% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cherry Tree in 2022 was $33,309, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $133,236 for a family of four. However, Cherry Tree contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cherry Tree home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cherry Tree residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cherry Tree include English, German, Swedish, Italian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Cherry Tree is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.9% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.3% 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 98.8% 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 Cherry Tree are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.2% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 10.8% 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 94.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Cherry Tree, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.