Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,243 people and just one neighborhood, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is the 96th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights who work in office and administrative support (13.29%), sales jobs (11.56%), and management occupations (10.65%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.10% 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.
Overall, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
One downside of living in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights, the average commute to work is 30.57 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.95% of adults in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights in 2022 was $26,603, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $106,412 for a family of four. However, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.7% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% 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, 33.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (13.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.