Rainelle is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,159 people and just one neighborhood, Rainelle is the 145th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rainelle is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rainelle is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rainelle who work in office and administrative support (25.21%), business and financial occupations (11.98%), and healthcare (8.06%).
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, Rainelle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rainelle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Rainelle, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.77 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Rainelle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Rainelle is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.77% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rainelle in 2022 was $22,157, 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 $88,628 for a family of four. However, Rainelle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rainelle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rainelle residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rainelle include English, German, Irish, Lebanese, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Rainelle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Of note, 65.4% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 40 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry.
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 Rainelle are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 65.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.0% 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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.5%), and 16.7% 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 99.1% 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 Rainelle, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.3%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (12.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.