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Kearneysville, WV

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Overview


Kearneysville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,616 people and just one neighborhood, Kearneysville is the 37th largest community in West Virginia.

Kearneysville real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Kearneysville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Kearneysville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Kearneysville is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kearneysville who work in management occupations (11.17%), office and administrative support (9.34%), and computer science and math (7.70%).

Also of interest is that Kearneysville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.93% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Kearneysville 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. Kearneysville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kearneysville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kearneysville may be for you.

One downside of living in Kearneysville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kearneysville, the average commute to work is 34.56 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Kearneysville who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.82% of the adults in Kearneysville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kearneysville in 2018 was $36,652, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $146,608 for a family of four. However, Kearneysville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Kearneysville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kearneysville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kearneysville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kearneysville include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Kearneysville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.7% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of all 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 Kearneysville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.5% 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, 42.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Kearneysville, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.7%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (64.6%) 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 (15.3%) . 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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