LeRaysville is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 289 people and just one neighborhood, LeRaysville is the 1059th largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in LeRaysville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
LeRaysville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, LeRaysville is a borough of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in LeRaysville who work in sales jobs (27.95%), business and financial occupations (27.33%), and management occupations (5.59%).
Residents will find that the borough 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, LeRaysville is worth considering.
Being a small borough, LeRaysville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in LeRaysville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.56% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in LeRaysville in 2022 was $37,271, which is upper middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,084 for a family of four. However, LeRaysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call LeRaysville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of LeRaysville residents report their race to be White. LeRaysville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.38% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in LeRaysville include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Scots-Irish.
In addition, LeRaysville has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.11%).
The most common language spoken in LeRaysville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 LeRaysville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 30 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 LeRaysville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.3% of U.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, 35.7% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.1%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).
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 LeRaysville, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.4%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.