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Clendenin, WV

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Overview


Clendenin is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 849 people and just one neighborhood, Clendenin is the 165th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Clendenin was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Clendenin is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Clendenin is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Clendenin who work in office and administrative support (12.27%), community and social services (12.00%), and management occupations (8.00%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Clendenin, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.20 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Clendenin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Clendenin citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.82% of adults in Clendenin have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Clendenin in 2022 was $21,410, 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 $85,640 for a family of four. However, Clendenin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 21.7% have English ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Clendenin are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 42.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.7%), and 11.9% 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 99.7% of households.

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 Clendenin, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of British ancestry (5.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (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 (9.9%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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