Masontown is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 505 people and just one neighborhood, Masontown is the 197th largest community in West Virginia.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Masontown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.15% of the Masontown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Masontown is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Masontown who work in sales jobs (20.00%), farm management occupations (10.77%), and office and administrative support (9.74%).
Of important note, Masontown is also a town of artists. Masontown has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Masontown’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.79% 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.
One downside of living in Masontown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Masontown, the average commute to work is 35.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Masontown is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Masontown with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.11% of adults in Masontown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Masontown in 2022 was $29,642, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,568 for a family of four. However, Masontown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Masontown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Masontown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Masontown include German, European, Italian, English, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Masontown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Masontown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Masontown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% 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 52.6% of America'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, 34.8% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.5%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Masontown, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.