Crab Orchard is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,416 people and just one neighborhood, Crab Orchard is the 92nd largest community in West Virginia.
Crab Orchard real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Crab Orchard house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Crab Orchard is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.54% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Crab Orchard is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Crab Orchard who work in management occupations (14.56%), teaching (13.81%), and sales jobs (13.21%).
Also of interest is that Crab Orchard has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.46% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Crab Orchard 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. Crab Orchard has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Crab Orchard than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Crab Orchard may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Crab Orchard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Crab Orchard rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.75% of adults 25 and older in Crab Orchard have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Crab Orchard in 2022 was $25,545, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,180 for a family of four. However, Crab Orchard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Crab Orchard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crab Orchard residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Crab Orchard include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Crab Orchard is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Pacific Island languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.6% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.
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 Crab Orchard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.2% 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, 41.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.4%), and 13.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Crab Orchard, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (25.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (56.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.