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Lavalette, WV

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Overview


Lavalette is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 932 people and just one neighborhood, Lavalette is the 160th largest community in West Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Lavalette isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lavalette are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lavalette is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lavalette who work in sales jobs (23.71%), management occupations (11.85%), and healthcare (10.64%).

There are quite a few people in the armed forces living in Lavalette, and when you visit or drive around town, you will see military people in and out of uniform, shopping, enjoying life, and being part of the community.

Also of interest is that Lavalette has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Lavalette 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.

Demographics

Lavalette is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 47.15% of adults in Lavalette have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Lavalette in 2022 was $29,601, 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 $118,404 for a family of four. However, Lavalette contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lavalette home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lavalette residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lavalette include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Russian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Lavalette, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Lavalette are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.3% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.5%), and 8.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Lavalette, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (54.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (93.9%) 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.


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