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Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas.
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Zip codes were developed by the Postal Service for the purpose of delivering mail, but were never intended to define coherent neighborhoods. In addition, Zip Codes can have as many as 10 distinctly different census tracts contained within them. When distinct census tracts are blended together in a single Zip Code, the data reflects their average conditions and often gives a false sense of the area. The result is that potentially great matching neighborhoods can be missed, and erroneous matches can also be produced and delivered to you.
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Is the risk of home break-ins or other property crimes increasing?
Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Bunker Hill is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,748 people and just one neighborhood, Bunker Hill is the 23rd largest community in West Virginia.
Bunker Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Bunker Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Bunker Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.19% of Bunker Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Bunker Hill is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunker Hill who work in office and administrative support (15.93%), teaching (10.60%), and management occupations (9.92%).
Also of interest is that Bunker Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Bunker Hill is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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, Bunker Hill has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bunker Hill a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bunker Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.08 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Bunker Hill does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Bunker Hill who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.22% of adults in Bunker Hill have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Bunker Hill in 2022 was $39,702, 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 $158,808 for a family of four. However, Bunker Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bunker Hill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bunker Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunker Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bunker Hill include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Bunker Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
For many reasons, is rated by NeighborhoodScout as one of the top 4.6% of ideal neighborhoods for first-time home buyers in the state of West Virginia. Homes here are priced below median housing values in the state, yet the neighborhood has a track record according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive neighborhood home appreciation rates of above average real estate appreciation over the last five years compared to other WV neighborhoods, protecting your investment in your first home, while simultaneously making it less risky for your lender. Not only does this neighborhood stand out for combining price and home value stability or increases, it also is a neighborhood with a high quality resident population according exclusive data, meaning this is likely a good place to buy, live, and enjoy. While many first time home buyers focus purely on low cost and convenient location, which can risk your investment in your first home and put you in a less than desirable neighborhood, this neighborhood is a true standout for a lot of reasons, and definitely worth a look if you are a first time home buyer. In addition to being an excellent choice for first-time home buyers, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 1.6% have Eastern European ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Bunker Hill are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.8% of U.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, 36.2% 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 35.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.6%), and 9.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Bunker Hill, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.1%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) 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 (11.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
