Bunker Hill is a somewhat small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 6,571 people and just one neighborhood, Bunker Hill is the 23rd largest community in West Virginia.
Bunker Hill real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Bunker Hill house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Bunker Hill is a blue-collar town, with 38.82% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bunker Hill is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bunker Hill who work in office and administrative support (12.74%), management occupations (9.97%), and teaching (9.46%).
Also of interest is that Bunker Hill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Overall, Bunker Hill’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Bunker Hill is worth considering.
In Bunker Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.03 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Bunker Hill is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Bunker Hill overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Bunker Hill, 23.17% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Bunker Hill in 2022 was $35,712, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $142,848 for a family of four. However, Bunker Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bunker Hill is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bunker Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bunker Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bunker Hill include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Bunker Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 2.5% have British ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bunker Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.8% 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, 38.8% 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 34.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 12.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 96.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Bunker Hill, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.5%), along with some Eastern European ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (87.8%) 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 (6.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.