Lumberport is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 703 people and just one neighborhood, Lumberport is the 176th largest community in West Virginia.
Lumberport is a blue-collar town, with 43.62% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lumberport is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lumberport who work in office and administrative support (42.34%), maintenance occupations (2.98%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (2.55%).
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, Lumberport is worth considering.
One downside of living in Lumberport is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lumberport, the average commute to work is 32.10 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Lumberport does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Lumberport ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.65% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lumberport in 2022 was $36,983, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,932 for a family of four. However, Lumberport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lumberport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lumberport residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lumberport include Irish, German, Italian, Welsh, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lumberport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 28.2% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 96.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 3.7% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. 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 Lumberport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.3% of America'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 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 32.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (28.2%), and 18.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.7%).
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 Lumberport, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (29.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report German roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (3.7%), 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 (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (96.1%) 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.