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Eleanor - Buffalo, WV

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Overview


Eleanor - Buffalo is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 5,287 people and just one neighborhood, Eleanor - Buffalo is the 28th largest community in West Virginia.

Eleanor - Buffalo real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Eleanor - Buffalo house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eleanor - Buffalo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.05% of the Eleanor - Buffalo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eleanor - Buffalo is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Eleanor - Buffalo who work in healthcare (11.16%), management occupations (10.64%), and office and administrative support (10.51%).

There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Eleanor - Buffalo, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.15% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Eleanor - Buffalo is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Eleanor - Buffalo are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.94% of adults in Eleanor - Buffalo have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Eleanor - Buffalo in 2022 was $36,019, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,076 for a family of four. However, Eleanor - Buffalo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Eleanor - Buffalo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eleanor - Buffalo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Eleanor - Buffalo include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Eleanor - Buffalo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Japanese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 98.1% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Eleanor - Buffalo are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 36.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.3% 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, 34.9% 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 33.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.8%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Eleanor - Buffalo, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (32.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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