Triadelphia is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 651 people and just one neighborhood, Triadelphia is the 180th largest community in West Virginia. Triadelphia has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Unlike some towns, Triadelphia isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Triadelphia are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Triadelphia is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Triadelphia who work in sales jobs (16.98%), office and administrative support (16.75%), and management occupations (9.20%).
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!) Triadelphia 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. Triadelphia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Triadelphia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Triadelphia may be for you.
Triadelphia is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Triadelphia isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.70% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Triadelphia 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 rate of college-level education in Triadelphia is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.42% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Triadelphia in 2022 was $30,294, 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 $121,176 for a family of four. However, Triadelphia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Triadelphia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Triadelphia residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Triadelphia include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Triadelphia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 3.0% have Hungarian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 7.4% 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 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Triadelphia are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 79.9% of America'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, 34.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.7%), and 9.3% 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 98.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
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 Triadelphia, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (20.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (13.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.3%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (5.8%), 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 (33.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (92.8%) 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.