West Portsmouth is a very small town located in the state of Ohio. With a population of 2,928 people and just one neighborhood, West Portsmouth is the 390th largest community in Ohio.
When you are in West Portsmouth, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.69% of West Portsmouth’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, West Portsmouth is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in West Portsmouth who work in sales jobs (10.05%), healthcare (9.98%), and office and administrative support (8.12%).
The town 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, West Portsmouth has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes West Portsmouth a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, West Portsmouth doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in West Portsmouth with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.93% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in West Portsmouth in 2022 was $28,549, which is lower middle income relative to Ohio and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,196 for a family of four. However, West Portsmouth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call West Portsmouth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West Portsmouth residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in West Portsmouth include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in West Portsmouth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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 West Portsmouth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.7% of all American neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 41.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 1.5% have Eastern European 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 West Portsmouth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 57.5% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 41.7% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.2%).
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 West Portsmouth, OH, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (92.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.