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MacArthur - Mabscott, WV

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Overview


MacArthur - Mabscott is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,877 people and just one neighborhood, MacArthur - Mabscott is the 76th largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

MacArthur - Mabscott is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, MacArthur - Mabscott is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in MacArthur - Mabscott who work in healthcare suport services (13.94%), office and administrative support (10.84%), and sales jobs (10.50%).

Of important note, MacArthur - Mabscott is also a town of artists. MacArthur - Mabscott has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape MacArthur - Mabscott’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

MacArthur - Mabscott is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of MacArthur - Mabscott rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.51% of adults 25 and older in MacArthur - Mabscott have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in MacArthur - Mabscott in 2022 was $21,332, 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 $85,328 for a family of four. However, MacArthur - Mabscott contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in MacArthur - Mabscott is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 29.0% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 MacArthur - Mabscott are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.7% 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, 27.1% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.8%), and 21.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

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 95.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, 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 MacArthur - Mabscott, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (29.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.2%), and residents who report German roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.6%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (94.5%) 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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