Flemington is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 304 people and just one neighborhood, Flemington is the 234th largest community in West Virginia. Flemington has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Flemington is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Flemington is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flemington who work in sales jobs (15.05%), office and administrative support (10.75%), and teaching (10.75%).
Also of interest is that Flemington has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.69% 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.
Being a small town, Flemington does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Flemington overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Flemington, 23.64% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Flemington in 2022 was $20,099, which is low income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,396 for a family of four. However, Flemington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Flemington home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flemington residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Flemington include German, Irish, English, Hungarian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Flemington is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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Of particular note, 7.4% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Significantly, 6.7% 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 95.6% 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 Flemington are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.2% 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, 31.6% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 17.9% 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 99.5% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.7%).
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 Flemington, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (27.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.