Hamlin is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 992 people and just one neighborhood, Hamlin is the 154th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hamlin is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hamlin is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hamlin who work in office and administrative support (25.31%), sales jobs (11.55%), and management occupations (8.85%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.48% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Being a small town, Hamlin does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Hamlin is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.98% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hamlin in 2022 was $27,286, 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 $109,144 for a family of four. However, Hamlin contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Hamlin home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Hamlin residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hamlin include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Hamlin is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hamlin are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 29.5% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.1%), and 19.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Hamlin, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.0%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.0%) 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.