Reedsville is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 579 people and just one neighborhood, Reedsville is the 953rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Reedsville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Reedsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.46% of the Reedsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Reedsville is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Reedsville who work in food service (13.67%), healthcare (8.61%), and office and administrative support (8.10%).
Also of interest is that Reedsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Reedsville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Reedsville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Reedsville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Reedsville citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.17% of adults in Reedsville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Reedsville in 2022 was $38,833, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $155,332 for a family of four. However, Reedsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Reedsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Reedsville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Reedsville include German, Irish, Scandinavian, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Reedsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Reedsville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 21.1% 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.
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 Reedsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.9% 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, 34.9% 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 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 11.0% 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 77.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.
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 Reedsville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.1%) 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 (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.