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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

When you are in Stevens, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 60.00% of Stevens’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Stevens 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. Stevens has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stevens than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stevens may be for you.

In Stevens, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.85 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Stevens doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Stevens has a very low overall level of education: only 9.77% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

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

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 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.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

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 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 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

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 (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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