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Duffield, VA

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Overview


Duffield is a tiny town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 71 people and just one neighborhood, Duffield is the 419th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Duffield is a blue-collar town, with 45.83% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Duffield is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duffield who work in healthcare (12.50%), office and administrative support (8.33%), and sales jobs (8.33%).

A relatively large number of people in Duffield telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.33% 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

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, Duffield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Duffield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Duffield 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

The population of Duffield has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.26% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Duffield in 2018 was $29,712, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $118,848 for a family of four. However, Duffield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Duffield is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Duffield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Duffield residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Duffield include Irish, English, German, French, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Duffield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of particular note, 14.7% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.8% 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 Duffield are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 33.2% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.8%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 Duffield, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (8.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (75.7%) 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 (20.1%) . 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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