Idamay - Carolina is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,576 people and just one neighborhood, Idamay - Carolina is the 54th largest community in West Virginia. Idamay - Carolina has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Idamay - Carolina isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Idamay - Carolina are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Idamay - Carolina is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Idamay - Carolina who work in community and social services (11.46%), healthcare (10.61%), and office and administrative support (8.75%).
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, Idamay - Carolina is worth considering.
Idamay - Carolina 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 citizens of Idamay - Carolina are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.14% of adults in Idamay - Carolina have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Idamay - Carolina in 2022 was $30,747, 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 $122,988 for a family of four. However, Idamay - Carolina contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Idamay - Carolina home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Idamay - Carolina residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Idamay - Carolina include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Idamay - Carolina is English. Other important languages spoken here include Urdu and Persian.
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 Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Idamay - Carolina are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.2% 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, 38.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 99.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Idamay - Carolina, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (17.8%), and residents who report English roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.