Williamson is a very small city located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 2,831 people and just one neighborhood, Williamson is the 70th largest community in West Virginia.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Williamson is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Williamson is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Williamson who work in healthcare suport services (12.83%), sales jobs (10.65%), and healthcare (9.69%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.29% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Williamson is a small city, 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 Williamson is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.21% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Williamson in 2022 was $25,475, which is middle income relative to West Virginia, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,900 for a family of four. However, Williamson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Williamson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.99% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Williamson is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Williamson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Williamson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Williamson include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Williamson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Williamson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
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 Williamson are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 98.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.0% 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, 41.6% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 18.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.8%).
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 Williamson, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (39.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (6.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.