Blue Ridge Summit is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 887 people and just one neighborhood, Blue Ridge Summit is the 857th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Blue Ridge Summit, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.45% of Blue Ridge Summit’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Blue Ridge Summit is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Blue Ridge Summit who work in food service (13.85%), office and administrative support (12.12%), and healthcare (11.47%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 20.87% 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.
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!) Blue Ridge Summit 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. Blue Ridge Summit has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blue Ridge Summit than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blue Ridge Summit may be for you.
One of the benefits of Blue Ridge Summit is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.38 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Blue Ridge Summit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Blue Ridge Summit citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.92% of adults 25 and older in Blue Ridge Summit have a college degree.
The per capita income in Blue Ridge Summit in 2022 was $32,137, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,548 for a family of four. However, Blue Ridge Summit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Blue Ridge Summit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blue Ridge Summit residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Blue Ridge Summit include German, Irish, French, Polish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Blue Ridge Summit is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Russian.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 4.0% have Scots-Irish 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 Blue Ridge Summit are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.8% 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 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.5%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Blue Ridge Summit, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report English roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.8%) 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 (7.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.