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Yeagertown, PA

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Overview


Yeagertown is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,002 people and just one neighborhood, Yeagertown is the 831st largest community in Pennsylvania. Yeagertown has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Yeagertown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.69% of Yeagertown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Yeagertown is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yeagertown who work in office and administrative support (27.22%), management occupations (8.43%), and sales jobs (7.99%).

A relatively large number of people in Yeagertown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.05% 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.

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Yeagertown spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.79 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Being a small town, Yeagertown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Yeagertown, just 9.64% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Yeagertown in 2018 was $34,482, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $137,928 for a family of four.

The people who call Yeagertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yeagertown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Yeagertown include German, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Yeagertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Yeagertown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 42.1% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.6% have Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Yeagertown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 33.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 20.9% in executive, management, and professional 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 98.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Yeagertown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (42.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report English roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (56.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (7.1%) . 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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