Great Falls is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 8,573 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Great Falls is the 104th largest community in Virginia.

Great Falls is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 96.72% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Great Falls is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Great Falls who work in management occupations (26.70%), business and financial occupations (10.75%), and sales jobs (10.66%).

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

Of important note, Great Falls is also a town of artists. Great Falls has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Great Falls's character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.65% 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.

In addition, Great Falls is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Great Falls is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Great Falls really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Great Falls perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

In Great Falls, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.44 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Great Falls Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Great Falls. 76.28% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Great Falls in 2000 was $78,149, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $312,596 for a family of four. However, Great Falls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Great Falls home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Great Falls is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Great Falls include English, Irish, German, Italian, Iranian, Polish, European, French, and Scotch-Irish.

Great Falls also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.70%.

The most common language spoken in Great Falls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Persian and Spanish.