Kenna is a very small town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 3,535 people and just one neighborhood, Kenna is the 55th largest community in West Virginia.
Kenna real estate is some of the most expensive in West Virginia, although Kenna house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Kenna is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.48% of the Kenna workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Kenna is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kenna who work in management occupations (16.56%), office and administrative support (16.25%), and healthcare (7.66%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Kenna has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Kenna has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kenna than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kenna may be for you.
Being a small town, Kenna does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Kenna, just 11.30% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Kenna in 2022 was $44,802, which is wealthy relative to West Virginia, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $179,208 for a family of four. However, Kenna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Kenna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kenna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Kenna include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Kenna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Kenna, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.5% of the neighborhoods in WV. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
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 Kenna are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.9% 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, 39.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 7.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Kenna, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.