Sand Fork is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 175 people and just one neighborhood, Sand Fork is the 256th largest community in West Virginia.
Sand Fork is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 92.50% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Sand Fork is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Sand Fork who work in office and administrative support (32.50%), law enforcement and fire fighting (20.00%), and maintenance occupations (12.50%).
A relatively large number of people in Sand Fork telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 41.67% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Because of many things, Sand Fork is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sand Fork a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sand Fork has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sand Fork’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Sand Fork spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.19 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, Sand Fork doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Sand Fork ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Sand Fork, 41.38% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Sand Fork in 2022 was $21,703, 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 $86,812 for a family of four. However, Sand Fork contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sand Fork also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.36% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Sand Fork home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sand Fork residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sand Fork include Irish, Italian, German, English, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Sand Fork is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 32.4%, which is higher than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Sand Fork are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.4% of America'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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.8%).
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 Sand Fork, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.7%).
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (72.8%) 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 (20.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.