McKenney is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 460 people and two associated neighborhoods, McKenney is the 339th largest community in Virginia.McKenney is a blue-collar town, with 35.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McKenney is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in McKenney who work in sales jobs (18.13%), maintenance occupations (8.81%), and business and financial occupations (7.77%). 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!) McKenney 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. McKenney has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McKenney than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McKenney may be for you. One downside of living in McKenney, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.49 minutes every day commuting to work. McKenney 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.In McKenney, just 7.97% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in McKenney in 2022 was $21,684, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,736 for a family of four. However, McKenney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McKenney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.31% of its population below the federal poverty line.McKenney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McKenney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McKenney residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McKenney include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Swiss. The most common language spoken in McKenney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
