Rebersburg - Madisonburg is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,972 people and just one neighborhood, Rebersburg - Madisonburg is the 647th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rebersburg - Madisonburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.84% of the Rebersburg - Madisonburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rebersburg - Madisonburg is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rebersburg - Madisonburg who work in management occupations (10.93%), office and administrative support (10.06%), and sales jobs (7.43%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.46% 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.
Because of many things, Rebersburg - Madisonburg is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Rebersburg - Madisonburg a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Rebersburg - Madisonburg has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Rebersburg - Madisonburg’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
The population of Rebersburg - Madisonburg has a very low overall level of education: only 8.71% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Rebersburg - Madisonburg in 2022 was $22,609, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,436 for a family of four. However, Rebersburg - Madisonburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rebersburg - Madisonburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rebersburg - Madisonburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Rebersburg - Madisonburg include Pennsylvania German, German, Irish, English, and Swiss.
The most common language spoken in Rebersburg - Madisonburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Rebersburg - Madisonburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. 43.1% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.5%) than in 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 6.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Pennsylvania. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 45.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Rebersburg - Madisonburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% 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 51.9% of America'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, 40.2% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), 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 55.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.
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 Rebersburg - Madisonburg, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.6%), and residents who report English roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (1.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (44.5%) 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 (27.5%) and 5.5% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.