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Rural Valley, PA

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Overview


Rural Valley is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 818 people and just one neighborhood, Rural Valley is the 877th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rural Valley is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.16% of the Rural Valley workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rural Valley is a borough of professionals, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rural Valley who work in healthcare (17.36%), management occupations (8.81%), and office and administrative support (8.29%).

Also of interest is that Rural Valley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Rural Valley 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.

One downside of living in Rural Valley, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.04 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Rural Valley rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.97% of adults 25 and older in Rural Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Rural Valley in 2022 was $32,629, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $130,516 for a family of four. However, Rural Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rural Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rural Valley residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rural Valley include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Rural Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 0.7% have Belgian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% 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 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Rural Valley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.5% 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.

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, 34.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.6%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 95.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Polish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Rural Valley, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Italian roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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.


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