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 is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In McKenney, the average commute to work is 33.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, McKenney does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In McKenney, just 9.87% 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 2018 was $22,306, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,224 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 32.38% 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.
