About Lake Monticello

Lake Monticello is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 6,873 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Monticello is the 122nd largest community in Virginia.

Lake Monticello is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.63% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lake Monticello is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Monticello who work in sales jobs (14.46%), office and administrative support jobs (14.34%), and management occupations (10.96%).

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

One downside of living in Lake Monticello, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.28 minutes every day commuting to work.

Lake Monticello is a very car-oriented town. 98.03% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Lake Monticello 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. Lake Monticello has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Lake Monticello does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Lake Monticello Information and Demographics

The citizens of Lake Monticello are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 39.14% of adults in Lake Monticello have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lake Monticello in 2000 was $25,226, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,904 for a family of four. However, Lake Monticello contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Lake Monticello is English.