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Amissville, VA

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Overview


Amissville is a somewhat small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 5,527 people and just one neighborhood, Amissville is the 118th largest community in Virginia.

Amissville home prices are not only among the most expensive in Virginia, but Amissville real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Amissville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Amissville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Amissville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Amissville who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), sales jobs (10.52%), and management occupations (10.18%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Amissville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.53% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Amissville 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, Amissville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Amissville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, 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.

One downside of living in Amissville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.73 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Amissville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The overall education level of Amissville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.40% of adults in Amissville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Amissville in 2018 was $40,263, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $161,052 for a family of four. However, Amissville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Amissville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Amissville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Amissville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Amissville include German, English, Irish, Lebanese, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Amissville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Arabic and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.1% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Virginia. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for college students.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 9.0% have Arab ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Amissville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 61.4% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.9%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.2% of households. Some people also speak Arabic (6.2%).

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 Amissville, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (19.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report Arab roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.8%), along with some Lebanese ancestry residents (7.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.6%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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