About Palmyra

Palmyra is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 11,147 people and just one neighborhood, Palmyra is the 85th largest community in Virginia.

Palmyra is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Palmyra is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Palmyra who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.18%), sales jobs (11.60%), and management occupations (8.15%).

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

One downside of living in Palmyra is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Palmyra, the average commute to work is 32.54 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Palmyra is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Palmyra, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.58% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Palmyra Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Palmyra is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.12% of adults in Palmyra have a college degree.

The per capita income in Palmyra in 2000 was $22,140, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $88,560 for a family of four.

Palmyra is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Palmyra home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Palmyra is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Palmyra include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Palmyra is English.