Valley View - Hegins is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,217 people and just one neighborhood, Valley View - Hegins is the 370th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in Valley View - Hegins, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.44% of Valley View - Hegins’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Valley View - Hegins is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Valley View - Hegins who work in healthcare (10.44%), office and administrative support (9.54%), and teaching (6.99%).
As is often the case in a small town, Valley View - Hegins doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Valley View - Hegins overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Valley View - Hegins, 21.45% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Valley View - Hegins in 2022 was $37,520, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,080 for a family of four. However, Valley View - Hegins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Valley View - Hegins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valley View - Hegins residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Valley View - Hegins include German, Irish, Polish, Swedish, and Pennsylvania German.
The most common language spoken in Valley View - Hegins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and West Germanic languages.
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 Valley View - Hegins, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Lithuanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 54.5% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 2.8% have Lithuanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.7% 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 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Valley View - Hegins are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.4% 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 69.5% 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, 42.7% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.1%), and 10.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 93.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish, Spanish and Italian.
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 Valley View - Hegins, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (54.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report Polish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (31.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (78.3%) 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 (8.0%) and 7.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.