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Cedar Grove - Glasgow, WV

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Overview


Cedar Grove - Glasgow is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 4,180 people and just one neighborhood, Cedar Grove - Glasgow is the 41st largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Cedar Grove - Glasgow isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cedar Grove - Glasgow are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cedar Grove - Glasgow is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cedar Grove - Glasgow who work in office and administrative support (14.40%), sales jobs (12.90%), and healthcare suport services (10.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cedar Grove - Glasgow has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cedar Grove - Glasgow a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Cedar Grove - Glasgow, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.11 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.

For a small town, Cedar Grove - Glasgow has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Cedar Grove - Glasgow exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cedar Grove - Glasgow ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cedar Grove - Glasgow in 2022 was $24,546, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,184 for a family of four. However, Cedar Grove - Glasgow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Cedar Grove - Glasgow home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cedar Grove - Glasgow residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cedar Grove - Glasgow include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Cedar Grove - Glasgow is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.7% 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.

In addition, 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 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% 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 Cedar Grove - Glasgow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 30.4% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.7%), and 14.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cedar Grove - Glasgow, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.0%), along with some Hungarian ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (27.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (77.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (10.0%) and 9.8% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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