Elkview is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,116 people and just one neighborhood, Elkview is the 151st largest community in West Virginia.
Elkview is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elkview is a town of professionals, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elkview who work in business and financial occupations (12.44%), architecture and engineering (10.88%), and management occupations (10.10%).
Of important note, Elkview is also a town of artists. Elkview has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Elkview’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.66% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Elkview is worth considering.
One downside of living in Elkview is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Elkview, the average commute to work is 30.77 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Elkview does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Elkview who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.46% of the adults in Elkview have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elkview in 2022 was $37,055, 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 $148,220 for a family of four. However, Elkview contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Elkview home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elkview residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elkview include German, Irish, English, Dutch, and British.
The most common language spoken in Elkview is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.0% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 5.8% have Scottish ancestry.
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 Elkview are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.5% 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, 32.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.6%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.7% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Elkview, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.8%), 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 (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.