Montgomery - Powellton is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,054 people and just one neighborhood, Montgomery - Powellton is the 67th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns, Montgomery - Powellton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Montgomery - Powellton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery - Powellton is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery - Powellton who work in business and financial occupations (14.11%), sales jobs (10.79%), and computer science and math (7.66%).
Also of interest is that Montgomery - Powellton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small town, Montgomery - Powellton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Montgomery - Powellton with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.74% of adults in Montgomery - Powellton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Montgomery - Powellton in 2022 was $28,731, 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 $114,924 for a family of four. However, Montgomery - Powellton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Montgomery - Powellton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.37% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Montgomery - Powellton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery - Powellton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery - Powellton include English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Montgomery - Powellton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 Montgomery - Powellton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (58.3%) than found in 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
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 Montgomery - Powellton are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% 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, 32.2% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.1%), and 10.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Montgomery - Powellton, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Scottish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
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 (29.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.6%) 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.