Cherry Tree is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 270 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.
Cherry Tree is a blue-collar town, with 60.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. 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 (14.29%), healthcare (6.80%), and sales jobs (4.08%).
Cherry Tree’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The borough 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, Cherry Tree has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cherry Tree a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Cherry Tree, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.21 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Cherry Tree 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, Cherry Tree ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.13% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cherry Tree in 2022 was $32,367, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,468 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, Polish, Irish, and Swedish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 41 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. 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.
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, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 1.4% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.0% 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 98.7% 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 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 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 60.8% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 38.8% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.5%), and 11.5% 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 95.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Cherry Tree, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.8%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.