Drumore - Peach Bottom is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,791 people and just one neighborhood, Drumore - Peach Bottom is the 250th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Drumore - Peach Bottom real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Drumore - Peach Bottom house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Drumore - Peach Bottom is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.32% of the Drumore - Peach Bottom workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Drumore - Peach Bottom is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drumore - Peach Bottom who work in management occupations (11.05%), maintenance occupations (8.29%), and sales jobs (7.25%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.93% 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.
Drumore - Peach Bottom’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Drumore - Peach Bottom is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Drumore - Peach Bottom, the average commute to work is 34.26 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Drumore - Peach Bottom doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.74% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Drumore - Peach Bottom in 2022 was $30,525, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,100 for a family of four. However, Drumore - Peach Bottom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Drumore - Peach Bottom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drumore - Peach Bottom residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom include German, Irish, Pennsylvania German, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Drumore - Peach Bottom is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
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 Drumore - Peach Bottom, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 24.0% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 5.0% have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 25.1% 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 99.9% 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 Drumore - Peach Bottom are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.8% 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 68.5% 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, 37.8% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 8.6% 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 71.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Drumore - Peach Bottom, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (65.7%) 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 (21.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.