Nitro is a somewhat small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,366 people and two associated neighborhoods, Nitro is the 21st largest community in West Virginia.Nitro is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Nitro is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nitro who work in office and administrative support (14.74%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.58%), and business and financial occupations (7.93%). It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Nitro 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. Nitro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nitro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nitro may be for you. Being a small city, Nitro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Nitro who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.19% of the adults in Nitro have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Nitro in 2022 was $35,489, 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 $141,956 for a family of four. However, Nitro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Nitro is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nitro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nitro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Nitro include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Nitro is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Polish.
