Eleanor - Buffalo is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 5,290 people and just one neighborhood, Eleanor - Buffalo is the 28th largest community in West Virginia.
Eleanor - Buffalo real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Eleanor - Buffalo house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Eleanor - Buffalo isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Eleanor - Buffalo are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Eleanor - Buffalo is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Eleanor - Buffalo who work in office and administrative support (12.61%), healthcare (12.15%), and management occupations (10.45%).
Eleanor - Buffalo is home to a number of people employed in the armed forces. When you visit or walk around Eleanor - Buffalo, some of the people you will bump into will be military people In and out of uniform, jogging, shopping and generally out and about town.
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, Eleanor - Buffalo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Eleanor - Buffalo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Eleanor - Buffalo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Eleanor - Buffalo are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.28% of adults in Eleanor - Buffalo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Eleanor - Buffalo in 2022 was $30,522, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,088 for a family of four. However, Eleanor - Buffalo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Eleanor - Buffalo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eleanor - Buffalo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Eleanor - Buffalo include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Eleanor - Buffalo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Our research reveals that 90.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Eleanor - Buffalo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.4% 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, 32.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
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 Eleanor - Buffalo, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (9.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.7%) 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 (7.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.