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Clearville, PA

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Overview


Clearville is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 2,739 people and just one neighborhood, Clearville is the 536th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Clearville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.22% of the Clearville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Clearville is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clearville who work in management occupations (13.35%), food service (8.21%), and sales jobs (7.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Clearville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Clearville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Clearville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.73 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Clearville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.81% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Clearville in 2022 was $28,458, which is lower middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,832 for a family of four. However, Clearville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Clearville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.2%, which is higher than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Clearville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.7% 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 53.9% 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, 37.2% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Clearville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.0%) 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 (11.0%) . 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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