Wallback is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,089 people and just one neighborhood, Wallback is the third largest community in West Virginia.
When you are in Wallback, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.54% of Wallback’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wallback is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wallback who work in office and administrative support (12.32%), teaching (12.03%), and healthcare suport services (6.93%).
The town 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, Wallback has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wallback a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Wallback is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wallback, the average commute to work is 35.20 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Wallback doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Wallback is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.24% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wallback in 2022 was $26,216, 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 $104,864 for a family of four. However, Wallback contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wallback home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wallback residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wallback include Irish, English, German, Polish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Wallback is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Wallback, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 93.2% of the neighborhoods in 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.
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 Wallback are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% 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 33.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 10.1% 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 100.0% of households.
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 Wallback, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.0%), and residents who report German roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (1.4%).
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.3%) 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 (18.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.