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Mason - Hartford, WV

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Overview


Mason - Hartford is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,059 people and just one neighborhood, Mason - Hartford is the 69th largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Mason - Hartford isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mason - Hartford are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mason - Hartford is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mason - Hartford who work in office and administrative support (11.36%), healthcare (11.36%), and sales jobs (10.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Mason - Hartford is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Mason - Hartford has a very low overall level of education: only 7.42% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Mason - Hartford in 2022 was $22,394, 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 $89,576 for a family of four. However, Mason - Hartford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Mason - Hartford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.0% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

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 Mason - Hartford are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% of U.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, 29.4% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 20.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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 Mason - Hartford, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report English roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (87.9%) 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 (10.7%) . 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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