Drumore - Peach Bottom is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,816 people and just one neighborhood, Drumore - Peach Bottom is the 250th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Drumore - Peach Bottom real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Drumore - Peach Bottom house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Drumore - Peach Bottom is a blue-collar town, with 44.10% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Drumore - Peach Bottom is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drumore - Peach Bottom who work in management occupations (13.25%), maintenance occupations (9.05%), and sales jobs (7.84%).
A relatively large number of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.67% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Drumore - Peach Bottom is worth considering.
One downside of living in Drumore - Peach Bottom is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Drumore - Peach Bottom, the average commute to work is 32.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Drumore - Peach Bottom doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Drumore - Peach Bottom have a very low rate of college education: just 9.69% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Drumore - Peach Bottom in 2022 was $29,374, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $117,496 for a family of four. However, Drumore - Peach Bottom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Drumore - Peach Bottom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drumore - Peach Bottom residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom include German, Irish, Pennsylvania German, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Drumore - Peach Bottom is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 26.3% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.5% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 2.0% have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 28.3% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Drumore - Peach Bottom are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.6% 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 62.0% 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, 37.1% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 7.7% 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 68.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.
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 Drumore - Peach Bottom, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.3%), 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 (27.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (64.3%) 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 (22.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.