About Purcellville

Purcellville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 9,072 people and just one neighborhood, Purcellville is the 97th largest community in Virginia.

Purcellville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.95% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Purcellville is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Purcellville who work in management occupations (14.66%), office and administrative support jobs (13.25%), and sales jobs (11.95%).

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

Of important note, Purcellville is also a town of artists. Purcellville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Purcellville's character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.27% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Purcellville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Purcellville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Purcellville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

In Purcellville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.69 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Purcellville 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 Purcellville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.86% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Purcellville Information and Demographics

The citizens of Purcellville are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.45% of adults in Purcellville have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Purcellville in 2000 was $33,226, which is wealthy relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $132,904 for a family of four. However, Purcellville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Purcellville is English.