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Harrisville, WV

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Overview


Harrisville is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 1,554 people and just one neighborhood, Harrisville is the 121st largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Harrisville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Harrisville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Harrisville who work in office and administrative support (25.27%), sales jobs (12.01%), and business and financial occupations (8.78%).

A relatively large number of people in Harrisville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.89% 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.

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, Harrisville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Harrisville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Harrisville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Harrisville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.98% of adults in Harrisville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Harrisville in 2022 was $29,386, which is upper middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,544 for a family of four. However, Harrisville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Harrisville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.70% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Harrisville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Harrisville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Harrisville include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Harrisville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (56.7%) than found in 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.2% of the neighborhoods in 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 Harrisville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 56.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.1% 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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.2%), and 19.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Chinese (2.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Harrisville, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (6.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.7%) 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 (10.2%) . 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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