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Institute, WV

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Overview


Institute is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 569 people and just one neighborhood, Institute is the 189th largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Institute isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Institute are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Institute is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Institute who work in teaching (18.18%), healthcare suport services (16.88%), and food service (15.15%).

Also of interest is that Institute has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Institute spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.31 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

For a small town, Institute 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 Institute exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.

Demographics

The education level of Institute citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 38.60% of adults in Institute have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Institute in 2018 was $16,766, which is low income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,064 for a family of four.

Institute is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Institute home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Institute residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Institute include English, Irish, French, German, and African.

The most common language spoken in Institute is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.

The Neighbors

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 Institute are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.7% 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 76.3% 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, 31.6% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 20.4% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.

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 Institute, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (2.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (1.4%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (1.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (64.2%) 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 (18.8%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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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