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Goodview, VA

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Overview


Goodview is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 3,396 people and just one neighborhood, Goodview is the 164th largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Goodview is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Goodview is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Goodview who work in healthcare (10.01%), office and administrative support (9.13%), and management occupations (8.82%).

Also of interest is that Goodview has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

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

In Goodview, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Goodview does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Goodview who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.17% of the adults in Goodview have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Goodview in 2018 was $41,461, which is upper middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $165,844 for a family of four. However, Goodview contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Goodview is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Goodview are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 37.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 15.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Goodview, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.5%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.3%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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