Stevens is a tiny town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 611 people and just one neighborhood, Stevens is the 943rd largest community in Pennsylvania.
Stevens real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Stevens house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Stevens is a blue-collar town, with 57.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Stevens is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stevens who work in office and administrative support (19.81%), sales jobs (19.32%), and personal care services (3.38%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.25% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Stevens has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Stevens has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Stevens than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Stevens may be for you.
One downside of living in Stevens is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Stevens, the average commute to work is 36.48 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Stevens doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Stevens has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Stevens in 2022 was $19,928, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,712 for a family of four. However, Stevens contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stevens is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stevens home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stevens residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stevens include German, Italian, Irish, Polish, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Stevens is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
If your dream is to be able to ride your bike to work each day, look no further than this unique neighborhood. With 3.0% of residents in the neighborhood commuting on a bicycle to and from work daily, this neighborhood has more bicycle commuters than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in the U.S., according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.7% 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 99.5% 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 Stevens are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.0% 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 50.9% 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, 34.1% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.0%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 88.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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 Stevens, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (28.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Swiss roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.