Cedar Grove - Glasgow is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,195 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Grove - Glasgow is the 41st largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Cedar Grove - Glasgow isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cedar Grove - Glasgow are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Grove - Glasgow is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Grove - Glasgow who work in office and administrative support (14.40%), sales jobs (12.90%), and healthcare suport services (10.26%).
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, Cedar Grove - Glasgow is worth considering.
One downside of living in Cedar Grove - Glasgow, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.11 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
Cedar Grove - Glasgow, even though it is a small town, has many people who use public transportation every day to get to and from work. This is a great benefit for people in the, town who have a need for low-cost transportation.
The population of Cedar Grove - Glasgow has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.38% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cedar Grove - Glasgow in 2022 was $24,546, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,184 for a family of four. However, Cedar Grove - Glasgow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cedar Grove - Glasgow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Grove - Glasgow residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Grove - Glasgow include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Cedar Grove - Glasgow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.7% 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.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cedar Grove - Glasgow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 30.4% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.7%), and 14.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.9%).
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 Cedar Grove - Glasgow, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.0%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (10.0%) and 9.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.