Mount Jackson is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 2,008 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Jackson is the 222nd largest community in Virginia.
When you are in Mount Jackson, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 52.78% of Mount Jackson’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mount Jackson is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Jackson who work in maintenance occupations (7.80%), sales jobs (5.90%), and office and administrative support (5.79%).
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, Mount Jackson has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mount Jackson a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Mount Jackson 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.
The rate of college-level education in Mount Jackson is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.99% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mount Jackson in 2022 was $28,171, which is lower middle income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $112,684 for a family of four. However, Mount Jackson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Jackson is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mount Jackson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Jackson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mount Jackson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.08% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Jackson include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
Mount Jackson also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.77%.
The most common language spoken in Mount Jackson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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 Mount Jackson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.9% 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, 41.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.3%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Mount Jackson, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 10.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (31.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (15.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.