Colver - Revloc is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,746 people and just one neighborhood, Colver - Revloc is the 247th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Colver - Revloc is a blue-collar town, with 38.53% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Colver - Revloc is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Colver - Revloc who work in office and administrative support (9.54%), management occupations (8.29%), and personal care services (8.06%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.83% 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.
Being a small town, Colver - Revloc does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Colver - Revloc citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.04% of adults 25 and older in Colver - Revloc have a college degree.
The per capita income in Colver - Revloc in 2022 was $39,863, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $159,452 for a family of four. However, Colver - Revloc contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Colver - Revloc home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Colver - Revloc residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Colver - Revloc include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Colver - Revloc is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of particular note, 6.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 2.5% have Welsh ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 9.0% 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 97.7% 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 Colver - Revloc are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% 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 56.4% 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, 38.5% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households. Some people also speak Polish (9.0%).
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 Colver - Revloc, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.