Pennsboro is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,022 people and just one neighborhood, Pennsboro is the 153rd largest community in West Virginia. Pennsboro has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
When you are in Pennsboro, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.94% of Pennsboro’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Pennsboro is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pennsboro who work in maintenance occupations (17.89%), sales jobs (6.30%), and food service (5.69%).
The city 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, Pennsboro has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pennsboro a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Pennsboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pennsboro, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small city, Pennsboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Pennsboro with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pennsboro in 2022 was $23,152, 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 $92,608 for a family of four. However, Pennsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Pennsboro home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pennsboro residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pennsboro include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Pennsboro is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of West Virginia. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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 Pennsboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.6% 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, 39.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 12.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).
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 Pennsboro, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.