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Port Trevorton - Freeburg, PA

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Overview


Port Trevorton - Freeburg is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,406 people and just one neighborhood, Port Trevorton - Freeburg is the 276th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Port Trevorton - Freeburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 48.14% of the Port Trevorton - Freeburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Port Trevorton - Freeburg is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Port Trevorton - Freeburg who work in management occupations (9.38%), office and administrative support (8.31%), and sales jobs (6.97%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.91% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Port Trevorton - Freeburg is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Port Trevorton - Freeburg a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Port Trevorton - Freeburg has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Port Trevorton - Freeburg’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

Port Trevorton - Freeburg is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Port Trevorton - Freeburg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.00% of adults in Port Trevorton - Freeburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Port Trevorton - Freeburg in 2022 was $30,554, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,216 for a family of four. However, Port Trevorton - Freeburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Port Trevorton - Freeburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Port Trevorton - Freeburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Port Trevorton - Freeburg include German, Swiss, English, Irish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Port Trevorton - Freeburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Port Trevorton - Freeburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 7.5% of residents in the neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 99.3% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.

Occupations

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 46.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.0% of American neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.4% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 47.1% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 19.8% 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 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Port Trevorton - Freeburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.7% 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, 46.6% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.5%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.4% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (19.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Port Trevorton - Freeburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (47.1%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (5.9%), and residents who report English roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.2%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (62.4%) 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 (14.1%) and 7.5% of residents also bicycle for their daily commute. 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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