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Mount Jackson, VA

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Overview


Mount Jackson is a very small town located in the state of Virginia. With a population of 1,997 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Jackson is the 222nd largest community in Virginia.

Occupations and Workforce

Mount Jackson is a blue-collar town, with 49.19% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mount Jackson is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Jackson who work in office and administrative support (8.74%), sales jobs (7.62%), and maintenance occupations (5.49%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Mount Jackson 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. Mount Jackson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mount Jackson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mount Jackson may be for you.

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.

Demographics

The citizens of Mount Jackson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.11% of adults in Mount Jackson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Mount Jackson in 2018 was $23,804, which is low income relative to Virginia and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,216 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 34.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Jackson include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.

Mount Jackson also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.89%.

The most common language spoken in Mount Jackson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.4% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.4%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 85.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Mount Jackson, VA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (16.8%) . 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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