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, Williamson isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Williamson are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Williamson is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Williamson who work in healthcare suport services (15.34%), sales jobs (12.47%), and food service (9.23%).
Of important note, Williamson is also a city of artists. Williamson has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Williamson’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Williamson telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.83% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Williamson is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Williamson, the average commute to work is 32.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Williamson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Williamson is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.20% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Williamson in 2022 was $25,299, 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 $101,196 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 32.31% 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, British, and Scots-Irish.
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.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, 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 85.0% 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.
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 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.1% 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, 40.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 17.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (5.8%).
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 Williamson, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.7%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.8%) and 5.1% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.