Smithers - Boomer is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,271 people and just one neighborhood, Smithers - Boomer is the 40th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Smithers - Boomer isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Smithers - Boomer are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Smithers - Boomer is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Smithers - Boomer who work in office and administrative support (15.42%), food service (13.37%), and healthcare (9.54%).
Also of interest is that Smithers - Boomer has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.07% 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.
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!) Smithers - Boomer 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. Smithers - Boomer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Smithers - Boomer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Smithers - Boomer may be for you.
One downside of living in Smithers - Boomer is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Smithers - Boomer, the average commute to work is 32.60 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Smithers - Boomer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Smithers - Boomer rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.32% of adults 25 and older in Smithers - Boomer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Smithers - Boomer in 2022 was $22,567, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,268 for a family of four. However, Smithers - Boomer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Smithers - Boomer is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Smithers - Boomer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Smithers - Boomer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Smithers - Boomer include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Smithers - Boomer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and German/Yiddish.
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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, is ranked among the top 7.7% of neighborhoods for first-time home buyers to consider in the state of West Virginia according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Homes here are priced below median housing values in the state, yet maintain moderate appreciation rates compared to other communities. Buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but an investment opportunity for many first-time home buyers.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 1.6% have Eastern European ancestry.
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 Smithers - Boomer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.9% 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, 33.1% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.7%), and 16.7% 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 99.7% of households.
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 Smithers - Boomer, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (18.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (6.3%), 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 (35.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (9.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.