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Rich Creek - Narrows, VA

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Overview


Rich Creek - Narrows is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 5,388 people and just one neighborhood, Rich Creek - Narrows is the 117th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Rich Creek - Narrows is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Rich Creek - Narrows is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rich Creek - Narrows who work in office and administrative support (12.51%), sales jobs (7.33%), and maintenance occupations (6.78%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Rich Creek - Narrows, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.39 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Rich Creek - Narrows 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 Rich Creek - Narrows citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.07% of adults 25 and older in Rich Creek - Narrows have a college degree.

The per capita income in Rich Creek - Narrows in 2018 was $30,568, which is middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,272 for a family of four. However, Rich Creek - Narrows contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Rich Creek - Narrows is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Rich Creek - Narrows, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Rich Creek - Narrows are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.3% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households. Some people also speak Polish (4.0%).

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 Rich Creek - Narrows, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (25.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (89.7%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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