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Stevens, PA

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Overview


Stevens is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 611 people and just one neighborhood, Stevens is the 943rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Stevens was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Stevens economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Stevens, where the median household income is $50,077.00.

Stevens real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Stevens house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stevens is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 60.00% of the Stevens workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stevens is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stevens who work in sales jobs (21.90%), office and administrative support (14.29%), and personal care services (3.81%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.10% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Stevens has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stevens a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Stevens is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Stevens, the average commute to work is 33.85 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Stevens 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.

Demographics

In Stevens, just 9.77% 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 Stevens in 2022 was $13,339, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $53,356 for a family of four. However, Stevens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Stevens also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.12% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Stevens is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stevens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stevens residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stevens include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Stevens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Diversity

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, 7.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Stevens are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.1% of U.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, 34.6% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.1%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 91.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Stevens, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (30.9%). There are also a number of people of Swiss ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (41.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.5%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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