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Pennsboro, WV

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Overview


Pennsboro is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,022 people and just one neighborhood, Pennsboro is the 153rd largest community in West Virginia. Pennsboro has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities.

Occupations and Workforce

Pennsboro is a blue-collar town, with 45.94% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Pennsboro is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pennsboro who work in maintenance occupations (17.89%), sales jobs (6.30%), and food service (5.69%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pennsboro has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pennsboro has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pennsboro than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pennsboro may be for you.

One downside of living in Pennsboro is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Pennsboro, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Pennsboro with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pennsboro in 2022 was $23,152, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $92,608 for a family of four. However, Pennsboro contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.3% of 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.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 8.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of West Virginia. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

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 Pennsboro are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 39.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 12.5% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.4%).

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 Pennsboro, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (14.6%) . 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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