Everson is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 740 people and just one neighborhood, Everson is the 893rd largest community in Pennsylvania. Much of the housing stock in Everson was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic boroughs in the country.
When you are in Everson, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.50% of Everson’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Everson is a borough of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Everson who work in office and administrative support (13.75%), healthcare suport services (11.75%), and management occupations (10.50%).
Also of interest is that Everson has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Everson’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Everson is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Everson, the average commute to work is 31.21 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. However, it is a pedestrian-friendly borough. Many of Everson’s neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.
As is often the case in a small borough, Everson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Everson, just 10.84% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Everson in 2022 was $33,688, which is middle income relative to Pennsylvania and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,752 for a family of four. However, Everson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Everson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Everson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Everson include German, Irish, Polish, Italian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Everson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak and Polish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry and 11.8% have Polish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 14.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% 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 Everson are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.3% 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 57.7% of America'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, 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.7%), and 14.4% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (14.0%).
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 Everson, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (11.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (8.0%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.