Belington - Junior is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,480 people and just one neighborhood, Belington - Junior is the second largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Belington - Junior isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Belington - Junior are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Belington - Junior is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Belington - Junior who work in office and administrative support (16.94%), sales jobs (15.42%), and healthcare (8.23%).
Belington - Junior 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.
In Belington - Junior, just 9.41% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Belington - Junior in 2022 was $22,702, 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 $90,808 for a family of four. However, Belington - Junior contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Belington - Junior home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Belington - Junior residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Belington - Junior include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Belington - Junior is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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Significantly, 7.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Belington - Junior are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.5% 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, 31.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 18.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Belington - Junior, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.0%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.