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Blue Ball - East Earl, PA

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Overview


Blue Ball - East Earl is a very small town located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 4,058 people and just one neighborhood, Blue Ball - East Earl is the 387th largest community in Pennsylvania. Blue Ball - East Earl has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Blue Ball - East Earl, where the median household income is $99,758.00.

Blue Ball - East Earl real estate is some of the most expensive in Pennsylvania, although Blue Ball - East Earl house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Blue Ball - East Earl isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blue Ball - East Earl are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blue Ball - East Earl is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blue Ball - East Earl who work in office and administrative support (21.03%), management occupations (11.85%), and sales jobs (11.01%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.70% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Blue Ball - East Earl is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.15% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Blue Ball - East Earl in 2022 was $49,739, which is wealthy relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $198,956 for a family of four.

The people who call Blue Ball - East Earl home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blue Ball - East Earl residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blue Ball - East Earl include German, Italian, Swiss, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Blue Ball - East Earl is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and German ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 33.8% have German ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.4% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Blue Ball - East Earl are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.5% 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, 26.2% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.5%), and 23.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 83.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Blue Ball - East Earl, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (33.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report Swiss roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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