Lumberport is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 695 people and just one neighborhood, Lumberport is the 176th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Lumberport was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
When you are in Lumberport, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.17% of Lumberport’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lumberport is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lumberport who work in office and administrative support (41.68%), personal care services (6.05%), and maintenance occupations (4.32%).
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, Lumberport has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lumberport a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lumberport, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.88 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lumberport is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lumberport isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.18% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Lumberport is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Lumberport have a very low rate of college education: just 6.48% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Lumberport in 2022 was $36,815, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $147,260 for a family of four. However, Lumberport contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lumberport home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lumberport residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lumberport include Irish, German, Italian, Russian, and English.
The most common language spoken in Lumberport is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 97.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.6%) 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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% 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 Lumberport neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 31.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 3.9% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Lumberport are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.2% of America'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, 38.4% 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 government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 27.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.2%), and 17.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (6.7%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Lumberport, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (31.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.9%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (53.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (97.4%) 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.