Paden City is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,451 people and just one neighborhood, Paden City is the 87th largest community in West Virginia.
Paden City is a blue-collar town, with 43.23% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Paden City is a city of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Paden City who work in teaching (10.58%), sales jobs (7.17%), and business and financial occupations (7.17%).
Paden City is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Paden City are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.70% of adults in Paden City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Paden City in 2022 was $28,090, 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 $112,360 for a family of four. However, Paden City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Paden City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Paden City residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Paden City include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Paden City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Paden City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.0% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 16.7% 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 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.2%).
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 Paden City, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.