LeRaysville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 288 people and just one neighborhood, LeRaysville is the 1059th largest community in Pennsylvania. LeRaysville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
LeRaysville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, LeRaysville is a borough of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in LeRaysville who work in sales jobs (27.95%), business and financial occupations (27.33%), and management occupations (5.59%).
LeRaysville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) LeRaysville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. LeRaysville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in LeRaysville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, LeRaysville may be for you.
LeRaysville 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 LeRaysville, just 11.56% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in LeRaysville in 2022 was $37,271, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,084 for a family of four. However, LeRaysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call LeRaysville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of LeRaysville residents report their race to be White. LeRaysville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.38% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in LeRaysville include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Scots-Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of LeRaysville's cultural character, accounting for 21.11% of the borough’s population.
The most common language spoken in LeRaysville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 30 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
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 LeRaysville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.7% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).
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 LeRaysville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 (34.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.