Wellsburg is a tiny village located in the state of New York. With a population of 483 people and just one neighborhood, Wellsburg is the 885th largest community in New York.
Wellsburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wellsburg is a village of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Wellsburg who work in office and administrative support (12.96%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.19%), and management occupations (8.80%).
Also of interest is that Wellsburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The village 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, Wellsburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wellsburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small village, Wellsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Wellsburg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.40% of adults in Wellsburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Wellsburg in 2022 was $26,584, which is low income relative to New York, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,336 for a family of four. However, Wellsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wellsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wellsburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wellsburg include Irish, German, Swedish, English, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Wellsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Wellsburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 9.9% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Ukrainian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 2.1% have Ukrainian 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 Wellsburg are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.8% 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, 35.5% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.9%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.1% 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 Wellsburg, NY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (19.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (6.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.6%), 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 (61.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.