Parryville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 417 people and just one neighborhood, Parryville is the 1015th largest community in Pennsylvania. Parryville has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Parryville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.49% of the Parryville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Parryville is a borough of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Parryville who work in office and administrative support (9.31%), healthcare suport services (7.35%), and food service (5.88%).
Of important note, Parryville is also a borough of artists. Parryville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Parryville’s character.
It is a fairly quiet borough 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!) Parryville 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. Parryville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Parryville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Parryville may be for you.
Being a small borough, Parryville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Parryville ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.39% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Parryville in 2022 was $25,848, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,392 for a family of four. However, Parryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Parryville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Parryville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Parryville include Pennsylvania German, German, Irish, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Parryville 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 Czechoslovakian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 44.2% have German ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.8% 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 95.7% 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 Parryville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.1% 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 64.2% 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, 35.8% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 13.6% 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 97.3% 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 Parryville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (44.2%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.