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 is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Arthurdale - Reedsville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Arthurdale - Reedsville who work in office and administrative support (13.32%), healthcare suport services (8.40%), and sales jobs (7.01%).
Also of interest is that Arthurdale - Reedsville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Arthurdale - Reedsville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.44% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 Arthurdale - Reedsville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Arthurdale - Reedsville, the average commute to work is 33.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Arthurdale - Reedsville 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 citizens of Arthurdale - Reedsville are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.13% of adults in Arthurdale - Reedsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Arthurdale - Reedsville in 2022 was $34,696, 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 $138,784 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 Black or African-American. 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.
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.
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. 10.0% 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 95.6% of all neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
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 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 65.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.8% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.7%), and 18.2% 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 99.4% 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 (17.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report English roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (26.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.