West Hamlin is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 508 people and just one neighborhood, West Hamlin is the 194th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, West Hamlin isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in West Hamlin are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, West Hamlin is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in West Hamlin who work in sales jobs (18.82%), office and administrative support (13.53%), and healthcare suport services (8.82%).
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, West Hamlin has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes West Hamlin a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
West Hamlin is a very car-oriented town. 99.40% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because West Hamlin is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. West Hamlin has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, West Hamlin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, West Hamlin ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in West Hamlin in 2022 was $26,607, 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 $106,428 for a family of four. However, West Hamlin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call West Hamlin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of West Hamlin residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in West Hamlin include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in West Hamlin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 West Hamlin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 30.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 31.4% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 19.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).
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 West Hamlin, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (25.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.6%) and 5.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.