Peterstown is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 443 people and just one neighborhood, Peterstown is the 208th largest community in West Virginia.
Peterstown is a blue-collar town, with 46.21% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Peterstown is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Peterstown who work in sales jobs (12.12%), office and administrative support (9.85%), and business and financial occupations (6.82%).
As is often the case in a small town, Peterstown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Peterstown with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.28% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Peterstown in 2022 was $22,833, 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 $91,332 for a family of four. However, Peterstown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Peterstown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Peterstown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Peterstown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Peterstown include English, Italian, Irish, Norwegian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Peterstown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
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 Peterstown are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% 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, 38.4% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.9%), and 14.2% 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 100.0% 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 Peterstown, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.