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West Wendover, NV

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Overview


West Wendover is a very small city located in the state of Nevada. With a population of 4,499 people and just one neighborhood, West Wendover is the 22nd largest community in Nevada.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, West Wendover isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in West Wendover are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, West Wendover is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in West Wendover who work in personal care services (23.40%), food service (10.19%), and teaching (9.19%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of West Wendover is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.70 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small city, West Wendover does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of West Wendover have a very low rate of college education: just 7.40% 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 West Wendover in 2018 was $28,708, which is lower middle income relative to Nevada and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,832 for a family of four. However, West Wendover contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

West Wendover is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call West Wendover home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in West Wendover, accounting for 50.25% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of West Wendover residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in West Wendover include European, German, Irish, English, and Dutch.

Foreign born people are also an important part of West Wendover's cultural character, accounting for 18.75% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in West Wendover is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Thai.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in West Wendover, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 1 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.8% 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.

Furthermore, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 85.0% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (56.7%) 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.

People

NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 11.9% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 100.0% 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.

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 West Wendover are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.9% 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 51.0% 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, 43.3% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 5.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 45.9% of households. Some people also speak English (35.6%).

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 West Wendover, NV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (47.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.6%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (54.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (81.5%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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