Laurys Station is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 1,170 people and just one neighborhood, Laurys Station is the 798th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Laurys Station real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Laurys Station house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Laurys Station is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 88.35% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Laurys Station is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laurys Station who work in management occupations (19.28%), sales jobs (14.62%), and healthcare (13.98%).
Also of interest is that Laurys Station has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Of important note, Laurys Station is also a town of artists. Laurys Station has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Laurys Station’s character.
Because of many things, Laurys Station is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Laurys Station really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Laurys Station perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One downside of living in Laurys Station is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Laurys Station, the average commute to work is 31.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Laurys Station does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Laurys Station are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.87% of adults in Laurys Station have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Laurys Station in 2022 was $64,811, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $259,244 for a family of four.
The people who call Laurys Station home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laurys Station residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Laurys Station include German, Italian, English, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Laurys Station is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.
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.
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.
Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 97.3% of neighborhoods in America.
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, 4.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 6.3% 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 Laurys Station are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 82.3% of the neighborhoods in America. 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.
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, 55.1% 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.4% of households.
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 Laurys Station, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (9.0%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (6.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.