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Dorothy, WV

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Overview


Dorothy is a tiny town located in the state of West Virginia. With a population of 207 people and just one neighborhood, Dorothy is the 250th largest community in West Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Dorothy was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Dorothy economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Dorothy, where the median household income is .

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Dorothy isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Dorothy are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dorothy is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dorothy who work in healthcare suport services (75.76%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 75.76% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Dorothy’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Dorothy has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Dorothy a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Dorothy does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Dorothy citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.69% of adults in Dorothy have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Dorothy in 2022 was $7,221, which is low income relative to West Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $28,884 for a family of four.

The people who call Dorothy home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dorothy residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Dorothy include English, Swedish, Scandinavian, German, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Dorothy is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 25 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.3% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

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 Dorothy are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 51.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.7% 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, 36.1% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.8%).

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 Dorothy, WV, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (48.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.5%).

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (46.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (93.5%) 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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