Atkins is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,121 people and two associated neighborhoods, Atkins is the 276th largest community in Virginia.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Atkins is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 63.88% of the Atkins workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Atkins is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Atkins who work in food service (5.99%), office and administrative support (5.81%), and business and financial occupations (5.63%). Of important note, Atkins is also a town of artists. Atkins has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Atkins’s character. The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Atkins has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Atkins a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of Atkins is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.27 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 town, Atkins does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Atkins has a very low overall level of education: only 8.94% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Atkins in 2022 was $29,547, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $118,188 for a family of four. However, Atkins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Atkins is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Atkins home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Atkins residents report their race to be White. Atkins also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.64% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Atkins include English, Scottish, German, Irish, and Canadian. The most common language spoken in Atkins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
