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Kistler is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 420 people and just one neighborhood, Kistler is the 211th largest community in West Virginia.
Occupations and Workforce
Kistler is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.11% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Kistler is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Kistler who work in office and administrative support (46.81%), sales jobs (29.79%), and teaching (8.51%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Kistler 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. Kistler has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kistler than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kistler may be for you.
One of the benefits of Kistler is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.07 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Kistler is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Kistler is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Kistler has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Kistler does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The citizens of Kistler are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.56% of adults in Kistler have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Kistler in 2022 was $24,762, 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 $99,048 for a family of four. However, Kistler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Kistler also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.64% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Kistler is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Kistler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kistler residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kistler include African, English, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Kistler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Pacific Island languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.1% of 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 Kistler are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.1% 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, 36.2% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 17.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Kistler, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (5.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.4%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
