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%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.25% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.48 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Stevens doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Stevens ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 (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.