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Rupert, WV

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Overview


Rupert is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 847 people and just one neighborhood, Rupert is the 161st largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Rupert isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rupert are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rupert is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rupert who work in food service (34.07%), sales jobs (21.05%), and maintenance occupations (7.76%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Rupert is worth considering.

One downside of living in Rupert is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rupert, the average commute to work is 31.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Rupert doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Rupert has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.85% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Rupert in 2022 was $15,552, which is low income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,208 for a family of four. However, Rupert contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rupert also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 49.10% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Rupert home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rupert residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rupert include Irish, Welsh, English, Italian, and German.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Rupert neighborhood.

In addition, of note, 58.3% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (59.9%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Rupert are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.8% 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.

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, 40.1% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.5%), and 11.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Rupert, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (6.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.3%).

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (91.6%) 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 (7.2%) . 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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