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Hurt, VA

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Overview


Hurt is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,256 people and just one neighborhood, Hurt is the 263rd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Hurt is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Hurt is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hurt who work in office and administrative support (14.36%), healthcare suport services (7.37%), and teaching (7.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Hurt is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Hurt with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.48% of adults in Hurt have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hurt in 2018 was $26,510, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,040 for a family of four. However, Hurt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Hurt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hurt are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 20.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Hurt, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (25.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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