Mertztown is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 600 people and just one neighborhood, Mertztown is the 945th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Mertztown, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 35.52% of Mertztown’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mertztown is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mertztown who work in food service (21.49%), healthcare (12.24%), and maintenance occupations (9.55%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Mertztown is worth considering.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mertztown spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.40 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Mertztown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Mertztown who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.97% of the adults in Mertztown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mertztown in 2022 was $35,207, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $140,828 for a family of four. However, Mertztown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mertztown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mertztown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mertztown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mertztown include German, Pennsylvania German, Irish, Lithuanian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Mertztown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Mertztown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 34.8% have German 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 Mertztown are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.6% of U.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, 36.9% 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 35.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 7.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.0%).
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 Mertztown, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (34.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.4%), along with some South American ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.