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Fries, VA

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Overview


Fries is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 448 people and just one neighborhood, Fries is the 340th largest community in Virginia. Much of the housing stock in Fries was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fries is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fries is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fries who work in sales jobs (14.15%), food service (14.15%), and healthcare (14.15%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Fries has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Fries has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fries than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fries may be for you.

Fries is a very car-oriented town. 98.11% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Fries is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Fries has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Fries 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.

Demographics

The education level of Fries citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.79% of adults in Fries have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fries in 2018 was $26,167, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,668 for a family of four. However, Fries contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Fries also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.24% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Fries home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fries residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fries include English, Irish, German, Russian, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Fries is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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The Neighbors

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The neighbors in the neighborhood in Fries are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 32.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (27.3%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Fries, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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