Carroll Valley, PA

About Carroll Valley

Carroll Valley is a very small borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 3,287 people and just one neighborhood, Carroll Valley is the 516th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Carroll Valley is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Carroll Valley is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carroll Valley who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.38%), management occupations (9.55%), and teaching (8.52%).

Also of interest is that Carroll Valley has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One downside of living in Carroll Valley is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Carroll Valley, the average commute to work is 33.37 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Carroll Valley is very much a car-oriented borough. This is because the population of Carroll Valley isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 99.29% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small borough, Carroll Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Carroll Valley Information and Demographics

The education level of Carroll Valley citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 27.45% of adults in Carroll Valley have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Carroll Valley in 2000 was $21,286, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,144 for a family of four. However, Carroll Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Carroll Valley home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Carroll Valley is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Carroll Valley include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

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