Jane Lew is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 388 people and just one neighborhood, Jane Lew is the 216th largest community in West Virginia. Jane Lew has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Jane Lew real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Jane Lew house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Jane Lew, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.20% of Jane Lew’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jane Lew is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Jane Lew who work in sales jobs (19.32%), office and administrative support (10.63%), and management occupations (7.73%).
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, Jane Lew has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jane Lew 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, Jane Lew doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Jane Lew is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.68% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Jane Lew in 2022 was $22,859, which is lower middle income relative to West Virginia, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $91,436 for a family of four. However, Jane Lew contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jane Lew is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jane Lew home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jane Lew residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Jane Lew include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Jane Lew is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 Jane Lew are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.1% 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, 43.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (16.4%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.0%).
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 Jane Lew, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (8.0%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.7%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.