Kenna is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,535 people and just one neighborhood, Kenna is the 55th largest community in West Virginia.
When you are in Kenna, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.06% of Kenna’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Kenna is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kenna who work in office and administrative support (20.40%), management occupations (16.33%), and teaching (5.29%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Kenna has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kenna a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Kenna 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 people in Kenna with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Kenna in 2022 was $41,783, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,132 for a family of four. However, Kenna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Kenna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kenna residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Kenna include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Kenna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
Our research reveals that 92.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Kenna are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.0% 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, 41.1% 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 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.1%), and 8.0% 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 99.5% 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 Kenna, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.5%), along with some Welsh 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.