Clendenin is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 849 people and just one neighborhood, Clendenin is the 165th largest community in West Virginia. Clendenin has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Clendenin is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Clendenin is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clendenin who work in office and administrative support (12.27%), community and social services (12.00%), and management occupations (8.00%).
One downside of living in Clendenin, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.20 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Clendenin doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Clendenin citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.82% of adults in Clendenin have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Clendenin in 2022 was $21,410, 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 $85,640 for a family of four. However, Clendenin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Clendenin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clendenin residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Clendenin include German, English, Irish, French, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Clendenin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 21.7% have English ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Clendenin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 42.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.7%), and 11.9% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
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 Clendenin, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (9.9%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.