East Bank - Pratt is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,773 people and just one neighborhood, East Bank - Pratt is the 51st largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, East Bank - Pratt is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, East Bank - Pratt is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in East Bank - Pratt who work in office and administrative support (18.81%), healthcare (11.16%), and sales jobs (9.68%).
In East Bank - Pratt, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. One bright side is that local public transit is widely used, so it may be an option to avoid the headache of driving in the heavy traffic by leaving the car at home and taking transit.
For a small town, East Bank - Pratt has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in East Bank - Pratt exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
In East Bank - Pratt, just 10.08% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in East Bank - Pratt in 2022 was $22,131, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,524 for a family of four. However, East Bank - Pratt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
East Bank - Pratt is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call East Bank - Pratt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Bank - Pratt residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in East Bank - Pratt include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in East Bank - Pratt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
More people ride the bus in this neighborhood each day to get to work than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.2% of 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 East Bank - Pratt are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% 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, 26.3% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.9%), and 23.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.6%).
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 East Bank - Pratt, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (69.8%) 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 (12.6%) and 10.4% of residents also ride the bus 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.