East Brady is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 804 people and just one neighborhood, East Brady is the 882nd largest community in Pennsylvania. East Brady has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
East Brady is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, East Brady is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Brady who work in healthcare (13.36%), office and administrative support (9.11%), and sales jobs (8.91%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.35% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
One downside of living in East Brady is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In East Brady, the average commute to work is 31.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
East Brady 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.
The overall education level of East Brady is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.65% of adults 25 and older in the borough have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in East Brady in 2022 was $34,438, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,752 for a family of four. However, East Brady contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call East Brady home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Brady residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in East Brady include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in East Brady is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 East Brady, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Croatian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 3.0% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 10.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.2% 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 East Brady are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.1% 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 51.7% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.3%), and 18.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 East Brady, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.4%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (74.6%) 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 (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.