Williamsburg is a small town where college students really create the town feel and character. So many small towns have lost population over the last 20-30 years that having the local college presence in the Williamsburg area, with all of the energy of the students filling area dorms and apartments each fall, really helps Williamsburg maintain a good economy.
One of the benefits of Williamsburg is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.35 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Williamsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Williamsburg are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.36% of adults in Williamsburg having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Williamsburg in 2018 was $20,721, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,884 for a family of four. However, Williamsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Williamsburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.97% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Williamsburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Williamsburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Williamsburg include English, German, Irish, Welsh, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Williamsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
