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Capon Bridge, WV

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Overview


Capon Bridge is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 422 people and just one neighborhood, Capon Bridge is the 211th largest community in West Virginia. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Capon Bridge, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Capon Bridge, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Capon Bridge’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Capon Bridge does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $63,125.00.

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

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Capon Bridge, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.41% of Capon Bridge’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Capon Bridge is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Capon Bridge who work in office and administrative support (10.04%), sales jobs (6.99%), and healthcare (6.55%).

Also of interest is that Capon Bridge has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.09% 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 Capon Bridge 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.

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, Capon Bridge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Capon Bridge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Capon Bridge, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.60 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In Capon Bridge, just 12.26% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Capon Bridge in 2018 was $22,038, 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 $88,152 for a family of four. However, Capon Bridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Capon Bridge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Capon Bridge residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Capon Bridge include German, Irish, Italian, Scots-Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Capon Bridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.8% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 35.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

In addition, 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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.1% of 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 Capon Bridge are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.6% 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, 38.3% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.2%), and 10.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.2%).

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 Capon Bridge, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (90.4%) 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.


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