East Brady is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 803 people and just one neighborhood, East Brady is the 882nd largest community in Pennsylvania. East Brady has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
East Brady is a blue-collar town, with 46.68% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, East Brady is a borough of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Brady who work in healthcare (10.79%), sales jobs (9.75%), and office and administrative support (6.85%).
Also of interest is that East Brady has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in East Brady, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.86 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small borough, East Brady does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in East Brady who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.92% of the adults in East Brady have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in East Brady in 2022 was $32,293, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,172 for a family of four. However, East Brady contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call East Brady home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Brady residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in East Brady include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in East Brady is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 4.6% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% 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 East Brady are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.1% 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 61.3% of America'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, 43.4% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.1%), and 13.2% 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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 East Brady, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (30.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.