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Saltville, VA

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Overview


Saltville is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,797 people and just one neighborhood, Saltville is the 228th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Saltville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.16% of Saltville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Saltville is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Saltville who work in food service (18.74%), office and administrative support (6.79%), and community and social services (5.53%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Saltville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Saltville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Saltville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Saltville may be for you.

Saltville 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

In Saltville, just 10.79% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Saltville in 2018 was $21,124, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,496 for a family of four. However, Saltville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Saltville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Saltville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Saltville include English, Irish, German, Swiss, and British.

The most common language spoken in Saltville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.1% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

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 Saltville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.2% 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, 39.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 6.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% 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 Saltville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.1%) 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 (8.1%) . 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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