Valley View - Hegins is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,206 people and just one neighborhood, Valley View - Hegins is the 370th largest community in Pennsylvania.
Valley View - Hegins is a blue-collar town, with 45.47% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Valley View - Hegins is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Valley View - Hegins who work in healthcare (11.49%), office and administrative support (8.86%), and management occupations (5.50%).
Being a small town, Valley View - Hegins does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Valley View - Hegins is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.40% of adults 25 and older in Valley View - Hegins have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Valley View - Hegins in 2022 was $35,111, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,444 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, Pennsylvania German, Polish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Valley View - Hegins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and West Germanic languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 45.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 52.7% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 4.3% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.9% 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 99.1% 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 62.7% 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 68.7% 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, 45.1% 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 (12.4%), and 9.2% 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 91.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish, Polish, Spanish and Italian.
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 Valley View - Hegins, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (52.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Polish roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (4.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.4%) 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 6.0% 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.