Grottoes is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,053 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Grottoes is the 251st largest community in Virginia.

Grottoes is a blue-collar town, with 42.6% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Grottoes is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Grottoes who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.80%), sales jobs (10.28%), and management occupations (5.44%).

Grottoes is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Grottoes 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. 98.04% 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.

Grottoes 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.

Grottoes Information and Demographics

In Grottoes, just 10.39% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Grottoes in 2000 was $17,195, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $68,780 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Grottoes is English.