Arthurdale - Reedsville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,039 people and just one neighborhood, Arthurdale - Reedsville is the 45th largest community in West Virginia.
Arthurdale - Reedsville real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Arthurdale - Reedsville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Arthurdale - Reedsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.29% of the Arthurdale - Reedsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Arthurdale - Reedsville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Arthurdale - Reedsville who work in office and administrative support (9.87%), sales jobs (8.75%), and healthcare suport services (7.75%).
One downside of living in Arthurdale - Reedsville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.66 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Arthurdale - Reedsville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Arthurdale - Reedsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.28% of adults in Arthurdale - Reedsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Arthurdale - Reedsville in 2022 was $31,193, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,772 for a family of four. However, Arthurdale - Reedsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Arthurdale - Reedsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Arthurdale - Reedsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Arthurdale - Reedsville include German, Irish, English, Polish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Arthurdale - Reedsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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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 Arthurdale - Reedsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.2% 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, 35.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.3%), and 17.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).
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 Arthurdale - Reedsville, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (29.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.