Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,208 people and just one neighborhood, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is the 96th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights who work in office and administrative support (14.73%), food service (13.95%), and management occupations (12.18%).
In Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.88 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The education level of Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.40% of adults 25 and older in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights have a college degree.
The per capita income in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights in 2022 was $27,087, 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 $108,348 for a family of four. However, Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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 Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Hungarian and Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Hungarian ancestry and 1.7% have Slovak ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 31.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.7%), and 17.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Beech Bottom - Windsor Heights, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.