Seven Valleys is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 480 people and just one neighborhood, Seven Valleys is the 990th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Seven Valleys was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in Seven Valleys, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.76% of Seven Valleys’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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 (21.15%), office and administrative support (10.44%), and management occupations (6.59%).
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.
Seven Valleys’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small borough, Seven Valleys does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Seven Valleys with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.74% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Seven Valleys in 2022 was $35,048, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,192 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 Polish.
The most common language spoken in Seven Valleys is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
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 5.8% 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 69.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.6% 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 68.8% 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, 37.2% 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 33.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.6%).
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 Seven Valleys, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (55.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.