Seven Valleys is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 478 people and just one neighborhood, Seven Valleys is the 990th largest community in Pennsylvania. Seven Valleys has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
Seven Valleys is a blue-collar town, with 40.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Seven Valleys is a borough of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Seven Valleys who work in teaching (21.94%), management occupations (8.33%), and office and administrative support (7.78%).
Of important note, Seven Valleys is also a borough of artists. Seven Valleys has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Seven Valleys’s character.
Overall, Seven Valleys’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Being a small borough, Seven Valleys does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Seven Valleys, just 9.92% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Seven Valleys in 2022 was $34,205, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $136,820 for a family of four. However, Seven Valleys contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Seven Valleys home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Seven Valleys residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Seven Valleys include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Seven Valleys is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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.
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 Seven Valleys are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 55.4% 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, 37.5% 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 34.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 11.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.6%).
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 Seven Valleys, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.7%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.