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Drumore - Peach Bottom, PA

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Overview


Drumore - Peach Bottom is a somewhat small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 5,791 people and just one neighborhood, Drumore - Peach Bottom is the 250th largest community in Pennsylvania.

Drumore - Peach Bottom real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Drumore - Peach Bottom house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Drumore - Peach Bottom is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.32% of the Drumore - Peach Bottom workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Drumore - Peach Bottom is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drumore - Peach Bottom who work in management occupations (11.05%), maintenance occupations (8.29%), and sales jobs (7.25%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.93% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

Drumore - Peach Bottom’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Drumore - Peach Bottom, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.26 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.74% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Drumore - Peach Bottom in 2022 was $30,525, 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 $122,100 for a family of four. However, Drumore - Peach Bottom contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Drumore - Peach Bottom home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drumore - Peach Bottom residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Drumore - Peach Bottom include German, Irish, Pennsylvania German, English, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Drumore - Peach Bottom is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.

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

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. 24.0% of the households in this neighborhood don't own a car at all. This is more carless households than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 5.0% have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 25.1% 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 99.9% 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 Drumore - Peach Bottom are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.8% 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 68.5% of America'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, 37.8% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 8.6% 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 71.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Spanish.

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 Drumore - Peach Bottom, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.0%), 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 (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (65.7%) 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 (21.7%) . 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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