Friedens is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,504 people and just one neighborhood, Friedens is the 724th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Friedens is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.19% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Friedens is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Friedens who work in sales jobs (23.05%), management occupations (16.46%), and office and administrative support (7.41%).
Also of interest is that Friedens has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Friedens’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Friedens 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. Friedens has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Friedens than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Friedens may be for you.
Friedens 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 percentage of adults in Friedens who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.50% of the adults in Friedens have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Friedens in 2022 was $30,503, 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 $122,012 for a family of four. However, Friedens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Friedens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Friedens residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Friedens include German, English, Afghan, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Friedens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.6% 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 96.5% 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 Friedens are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.5% 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, 29.2% 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 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 19.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Italian (7.6%).
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 Friedens, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.6%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.