LeRaysville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 289 people and just one neighborhood, LeRaysville is the 1059th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in LeRaysville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
LeRaysville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, LeRaysville is a borough of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in LeRaysville who work in sales jobs (28.74%), business and financial occupations (25.15%), and management occupations (6.59%).
It is a fairly quiet borough because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) LeRaysville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. LeRaysville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in LeRaysville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, LeRaysville may be for you.
Being a small borough, LeRaysville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in LeRaysville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.39% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in LeRaysville in 2022 was $41,880, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $167,520 for a family of four. However, LeRaysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call LeRaysville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of LeRaysville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in LeRaysville include Italian, German, English, Irish, and Croatian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of LeRaysville's cultural character, accounting for 20.49% of the borough’s population.
The most common language spoken in LeRaysville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 LeRaysville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 2.6% have Slovak ancestry.
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 LeRaysville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.9% of U.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, 35.9% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).
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 LeRaysville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.2%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (4.2%), 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 (33.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.