Fredericksburg is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,448 people and just one neighborhood, Fredericksburg is the 741st largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Fredericksburg was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Fredericksburg economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Fredericksburg, where the median household income is $89,475.00.
Fredericksburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fredericksburg is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fredericksburg who work in office and administrative support (16.32%), healthcare (13.64%), and teaching (8.39%).
Also of interest is that Fredericksburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
As is often the case in a small town, Fredericksburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Fredericksburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.37% of the adults in Fredericksburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fredericksburg in 2022 was $32,860, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $131,440 for a family of four. However, Fredericksburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Fredericksburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fredericksburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fredericksburg include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Fredericksburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 39.6% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.5% 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 95.4% 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 Fredericksburg are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.9% 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, 33.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.4%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.5%).
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 Fredericksburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Swiss roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 (45.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (14.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.