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Montgomery - Powellton is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,054 people and just one neighborhood, Montgomery - Powellton is the 67th largest community in West Virginia.
Occupations and Workforce
Montgomery - Powellton is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery - Powellton is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery - Powellton who work in business and financial occupations (14.11%), sales jobs (10.79%), and computer science and math (7.66%).
Also of interest is that Montgomery - Powellton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Montgomery - Powellton 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
The citizens of Montgomery - Powellton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.74% of adults in Montgomery - Powellton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Montgomery - Powellton in 2022 was $28,731, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,924 for a family of four. However, Montgomery - Powellton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Montgomery - Powellton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.37% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Montgomery - Powellton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery - Powellton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery - Powellton include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Montgomery - Powellton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Montgomery - Powellton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (58.3%) than found in 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
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 Montgomery - Powellton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% 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, 32.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.1%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Montgomery - Powellton, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Scottish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (29.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
