Chesterfield is a medium-sized town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 25,775 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Chesterfield is the 38th largest community in Virginia.

Chesterfield is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chesterfield is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chesterfield who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.70%), sales jobs (11.00%), and management occupations (10.07%).

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

In addition, Chesterfield is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Chesterfield is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Chesterfield a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Chesterfield has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Chesterfield's overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Residents of Chesterfield by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 98.7% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Chesterfield may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Chesterfield 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.

Chesterfield Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Chesterfield 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: 27.37% of adults in Chesterfield have a college degree.

The per capita income in Chesterfield in 2000 was $23,287, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,148 for a family of four. However, Chesterfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Chesterfield is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chesterfield home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Chesterfield is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Chesterfield include English, German, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Chesterfield is English. Some people also speak Spanish.