Sweet Valley is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,739 people and just one neighborhood, Sweet Valley is the 540th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Sweet Valley, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.17% of Sweet Valley’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Sweet Valley is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sweet Valley who work in healthcare (9.58%), office and administrative support (9.12%), and sales jobs (9.12%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.12% 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, Sweet Valley is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sweet Valley really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sweet Valley perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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, Sweet Valley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sweet Valley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Sweet Valley is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sweet Valley, the average commute to work is 34.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Sweet Valley doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Sweet Valley overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Sweet Valley, 23.74% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Sweet Valley in 2022 was $46,789, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $187,156 for a family of four. However, Sweet Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sweet Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sweet Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sweet Valley include German, Polish, English, Irish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Sweet Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.4% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% 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 Sweet Valley are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 50.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 12.1% 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 98.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Sweet Valley, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.8%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.8%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (8.9%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.