Yawkey is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,779 people and just one neighborhood, Yawkey is the 81st largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Yawkey is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Yawkey is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Yawkey who work in maintenance occupations (13.10%), architecture and engineering (12.30%), and management occupations (10.71%).
A relatively large number of people in Yawkey telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.52% 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.
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!) Yawkey 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. Yawkey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yawkey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yawkey may be for you.
In Yawkey, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.68 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Yawkey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Yawkey, just 9.10% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Yawkey in 2022 was $27,722, 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 $110,888 for a family of four. However, Yawkey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Yawkey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.64% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Yawkey is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Yawkey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yawkey residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Yawkey include Irish, German, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Yawkey 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 Yawkey, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 47.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Of note, 77.2% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 48.0% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 Yawkey are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 77.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 99.2% 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, 31.2% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.2%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households.
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 Yawkey, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%).
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (53.7% 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 a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.