About Basye-Bryce Mountain

Basye-Bryce Mountain is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 964 people and just one neighborhood, Basye-Bryce Mountain is the 334th largest community in Virginia.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Basye-Bryce Mountain is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Basye-Bryce Mountain is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Basye-Bryce Mountain who work in sales jobs (19.88%), office and administrative support jobs (15.26%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (5.82%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Basye-Bryce Mountain telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.70% 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.

Basye-Bryce Mountain is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

In Basye-Bryce Mountain, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.72 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Basye-Bryce Mountain is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Basye-Bryce Mountain 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. 96.58% 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.

As is often the case in a small town, Basye-Bryce Mountain doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Basye-Bryce Mountain Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Basye-Bryce Mountain is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.79% of adults in Basye-Bryce Mountain have a college degree.

The per capita income in Basye-Bryce Mountain in 2000 was $24,543, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,172 for a family of four.

The people who call Basye-Bryce Mountain home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Basye-Bryce Mountain is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Basye-Bryce Mountain include German, English, Irish, Scotch-Irish, Italian, Swedish, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Basye-Bryce Mountain is English.