East Freedom is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 552 people and just one neighborhood, East Freedom is the 964th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in East Freedom was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in East Freedom, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.35% of East Freedom’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, East Freedom is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in East Freedom who work in office and administrative support (13.85%), sales jobs (12.21%), and healthcare suport services (5.40%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) East Freedom has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. East Freedom has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in East Freedom than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, East Freedom may be for you.
East Freedom 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.
The citizens of East Freedom have a very low rate of college education: just 7.95% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in East Freedom in 2022 was $30,829, 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 $123,316 for a family of four.
The people who call East Freedom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Freedom residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in East Freedom include German, English, French, Norwegian, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in East Freedom is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 37.1% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% 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 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 East Freedom are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.7% 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 54.1% of America'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, 35.1% 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 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 19.2% 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 96.8% 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 Freedom, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (37.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.1%) 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.