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Holden, WV

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Overview


Holden is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 783 people and just one neighborhood, Holden is the 167th largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Holden is a blue-collar town, with 45.25% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Holden is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Holden who work in office and administrative support (24.33%), healthcare (15.21%), and sales jobs (9.51%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Holden has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Holden a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Holden spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.03 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

As is often the case in a small town, Holden doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Holden have a very low rate of college education: just 9.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Holden in 2022 was $94,766, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $379,064 for a family of four. However, Holden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Holden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Holden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Holden include English, Italian, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Holden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of particular note, 13.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

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 Holden are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.0% 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, 33.7% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.5%), and 17.2% 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 100.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Holden, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (83.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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