Scarbro - Hilltop is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,730 people and just one neighborhood, Scarbro - Hilltop is the 49th largest community in West Virginia.
Scarbro - Hilltop is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Scarbro - Hilltop is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Scarbro - Hilltop who work in sales jobs (20.63%), office and administrative support (16.22%), and food service (8.57%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.97% 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.
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!) Scarbro - Hilltop 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. Scarbro - Hilltop has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Scarbro - Hilltop than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Scarbro - Hilltop may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Scarbro - Hilltop doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Scarbro - Hilltop are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.76% of adults in Scarbro - Hilltop have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Scarbro - Hilltop in 2022 was $28,834, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,336 for a family of four. However, Scarbro - Hilltop contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Scarbro - Hilltop is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Scarbro - Hilltop home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scarbro - Hilltop residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Scarbro - Hilltop include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Scarbro - Hilltop 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 Scarbro - Hilltop, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese 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 Scarbro - Hilltop are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% 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, 37.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 18.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.3%).
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 Scarbro - Hilltop, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (37.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.